Eric,
Thomas is also working on this, please get in touch.
Laca
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 10:03 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> With the webstack project coming, I took a look at ways PHP add-ons could
> integrate into add-on F/OSS repos like SFE. PHP has a system for that kind of
> thing called PEAR -- PHP Extension and Application Repository (like Perl's
> CPAN system). So to start the ball rolling, I came up with a scheme
> and used it in five new spec files as examples (comments welcome of course).
>
> One key thing is that PEAR has its own package registry, so its necessary to
> have %post and %preun blocks to handle that. The good thing is, through the
> of a couple "%defines", those blocks are the same across spec files.
>
> In fact what's nice about this kind of thing in general (as with Mike and
> Glynn's CPAN specs) is that a re-usable "archetype" spec file is possible.
> For example, here's the (small) difference between two typical PEAR spec
> files:
>
> 9,10c9,10
> < %define topcat XML
> < %define Pname %{topcat}_RPC
> ---
> > %define topcat Net
> > %define Pname %{topcat}_SMTP
> 12,14c12,14
> < Name: SFEphp-xml-rpc
> < Summary: PHP package: XML-RPC protocol
> < Version: 1.5.1
> ---
> > Name: SFEphp-net-smtp
> > Summary: PHP package: SMTP protocol
> > Version: 1.2.8
> 22a23,24
> > Requires: SFEphp-net-socket
> > Requires: SFEphp-auth-sasl
> 65,66c67,68
> < # %dir %attr (0755, root, bin) %{phplibdir}/docs
> < # %{phplibdir}/docs/*
> ---
> > %dir %attr (0755, root, bin) %{phplibdir}/docs
> > %{phplibdir}/docs/*
>
>
>
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