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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