Re: [PHP-PEAR] RFC on merge of PHPLib and Pear

[Ulf Wendel <[email protected]>]
> 
> I'm not really happy with a "pre-pear" repository. This would mean that
> for all time packages that get developed by more than one person start
> in another CVS but the PEAR repository :/ which complicates
> contributions and stops people helping.
> 
> Rember the cool book of Tobias (Ratschiller) and Till (Gerken) and their
> chapter on the project layout. They suggest a development, a staging and
> a life server. I'm afraid we will not get this on php.net. At PHPLib we
> used a release conzept plus a dev and a life CVS. Releases will not work
> for PEAR as no one has the time to prepare releases. 

I believe releases will work for PEAR, but only package by package
(for example, DB distributed separately, or maybe even split into a DB
base package and one for each database).  A monolithic release model
like PHPLib's will not work, I agree.

 - Stig

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  Stig Sæther Bakken <[email protected]>
  Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway