Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PEAR (was: Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/midgardconfig.m4)

2001-03-19 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Because the whole point of this was to make life easier on midgard users. So you're saying that every widely used external (at the moment) php-extension should be put into PHP CVS? :) If it will help users and there is demand for it, sure. Like

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PEAR (was: Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/midgardconfig.m4)

2001-03-19 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
See pear/scripts/pear The framework is there. On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote: At 02:04 20/3/2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: No, we need tighter integration. We want to be able to do something along the lines of "pear pear.php.net/midgard" and it would go and fetch the the component,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PEAR (was: Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/midgardconfig.m4)

2001-03-19 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
That's great, but it shouldn't be the starting point for the project... Jani is right that whenever we speak about separating PEAR, or putting extensions in it, it's always at some point in the future. Opensource projects usually start up and roll once they reach some critical mass, and