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Re: Naming for PHP pear modules in Debian - Was: Re: PHP pear modules for Debian



On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 05:15:00PM +0200, Mirco 'meebey' Bauer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 14:14, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
> > And to bring that naming issue up again. Wouldn't it be best just to call them
> > libpear-something og libphp-something ?

> > That is the naming scheme mostly used all over Debian (libapache, libperl, etc.)

> > I think something like that probably should be defined, before they are introduced.

> Also versioning (PHP4/5) should be considered in the package namings.
> Some new PEAR package will only work with PHP5, some work with both.
> I am not sure how Perl solves this versioning problem, if it exists
> there :)

> I also want to note that the PEAR package in Debian should work as the
> CPAN one. Installation of PEAR packages via "pear install $package_name"
> should be done in /usr/local... but debian pear packages put them into
> /usr..
> the php.ini just needs to know both paths in the "include_path" option

Please file a bug about this if there isn't one open already.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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