Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/printer php_printer.h printer.c printer.dsp /win32 php_modules.dsw From: rasmus <email protected>
Date: 10/29/00

I think PEAR should be able to handle PHP extensions as well as the PHP
user-space classes it is handling now. That is similar to the way CPAN
works.

-Rasmus

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote:

> At 01:24 PM 10/28/00 -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> >On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > > PEAR (the PHP code at least) is part of the PHP 4 CVS. I was talking about
> > > some repository where you can see PHP extensions and have some script
> > which
> > > will automatically put them in php4/ext and possible ./buildconf for you.
> >
> >PEAR should not really be part of PHP CVS. It is only so for the time
> >being. Original discussion between Stig and me was about having it on
> >pear.php.net similar to cpan.org.
>
> Well let's re-open this discussion on php-dev@ and see what we can do.
> I don't know CPAN too well but I'm sure lots of people know the
> strengths/problems with it and we might be able to come up with something nice.
> In my opinion, it should be kept as simple as possible so that it will be
> easy to implement and easy to use.
> There are two main issues:
> a) How do people post their stuff?
> b) How do people retrieve things from there?
>
> Of course, each of these two issues have quite a lot of sub-issues which
> need to be discussed and the hard part will be where to we draw the line
> and not go into more detail.
>
> Andi
> ---
> Andi Gutmans <andi <email protected>>
> http://www.zend.com/
>
> 

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