I definitely agree that this would be a cool thing to have. Today PEAR
packages do all of this with PHP code, a more tightly integrated package
concept would be very nice. Comments below.
Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>
> Below is the proposal for PHP packaging extension. The intentions is for
> P
> > AM>> 2.) the PEAR-Installer create a package file of the 'your'
> > AM>> format from the XML package file
> > maybe would be better. Let's see what other people think.
>
> I forgot a possiblity, one task of the installer should be to
> store data of the
> installed pear-packages in flat-file d
> AM>> 2.) the PEAR-Installer create a package file of the 'your'
> AM>> format from the XML package file
> maybe would be better. Let's see what other people think.
I forgot a possiblity, one task of the installer should be to store data of the
installed pear-packages in flat-file database. This
AM>> > Also, I fear that XML would be too slow for time-critical operation like
AM>> > including files on runtime, but I might be mistaken.
AM>> Could be possible.
AM>> Solutions:
AM>> 1.) creating a c-function, which parses the xml-file
The problem is that I do not want to create dependency on a
> Is it documented somewhere?
The DTD is in php4/pear/package.dtd
> Also, I fear that XML would be too slow for time-critical operation like
> including files on runtime, but I might be mistaken.
Could be possible.
Solutions:
1.) creating a c-function, which parses the xml-file
2.) the PEAR-Insta
>> PEAR has already a XML-based package file format, which is already used
>> for installation and information retrieving.
Is it documented somewhere?
Also, I fear that XML would be too slow for time-critical operation like
including files on runtime, but I might be mistaken.
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> package_load("Name")
> package_is_loaded("Name")
> package_set_path("path")
+1
> 3. The package definition file has format like the following:
PEAR has already a XML-based package file format, which is already used
for installation and information retrieving.
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Below is the proposal for PHP packaging extension. The intentions is for
PHP to have the package system kind of like what Perl and other languanges
have. The comments and suggestions are most welcome, as usual. Especially
the experience with packaging system from other languages.
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