Michael Caplan wrote: > Being a newbie, perhaps I am overlooking something here, but I don't > understand your comment that "The Zend Framework works together, as a > complete unit." I understand their are various component dependencies, > but I don't believe that I can't use Zend_Pdf, for example, if the > _entire_ framework is not installed. If PDF generation is my goal, I > don't care to have to install 15MB of framework just to use that piece. > If anything I see that as being an inhibitor for framework use, > especially as the core framework size grows (and it is, isn't it?). >
Personally, I think that we should consider packaging up just library/ for each release in addition to the entire caboodle that we do at the moment. Certainly, on our production servers, we don't need demos/ documentation/, incubator/ or tests/. At the moment, we keep a copy of library/ in our CVS system which is only about 6.5MB, compared to 52MB for the entire thing (Zip distribution). A PEAR distribution would be easier though. Personally, I'm not too worried about having components we don't use in there as you never know when a project will come along that'll require something we haven't used so far. Also, if we run a third party ZF app, we can be confident it'll "just work". Regards, Rob...
