On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My experience with pear is that it can work great, but on the other hand > the distribution system is not always fully functional on all comp's php > runs on, or outdated, or simply unknown by the admins.. even more > challenging when the user only has ftp access or something to the host he's > deploying on :) > > Such troubles in the past have kind of taught me to avoid it where i could Fair enough. Might I suggest keeping any third-party dependencies in a dedicated directory so that nobody attempts to directly rely on them? Something like trunk/php/external/<Package>. The last thing you'll want is to have your hands tied on updating a library because somebody depended on it directly > > On Jun 6, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Ropu wrote: > > hmmm, i think for the same reason we have a subset of Zend >> >> to have less dependencies. >> >> >> ropu >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Actually -- is this available in PEAR? If so, why not just mention >>> grabbing >>> it from there? >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I only mean for the distributable (probably a tar ball file for PHP), >>>> >>> once >>> >>>> we get to releases. >>>> >>>> I'd rather live with large downloads than live without tests. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> As far as i know it is pretty much the only option ... well we could >>>>> add >>>>> >>>> a >>> >>>> readme saying 'download this, unpack it there, run these commands to >>>>> integrate it; And then you can test" but that would probably really >>>>> take >>>>> >>>> the >>> >>>> spontaneity out of testing wouldn't it.. but it is an option i guess. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Jun 6, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Kevin Brown wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Is importing all of PHPUnit really the only viable option? We'll >>>>> >>>>>> definitely >>>>>> want to make sure that any releases of the PHP code in the future have >>>>>> >>>>> an >>> >>>> option of only downloading the source and not phpunit -- that's a lot >>>>>> >>>>> of >>> >>>> code! >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> >>>>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>>> Still catching up with patches and filing bugs for the open to-do >>>>>> >>>>>>> items... >>>>>>> In doing so the list got a bit flooded as I'm making my way through >>>>>>> this, my >>>>>>> apologies! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- Chris >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> .-. --- .--. ..- >> R o p u >> > >
