New release cycle; was: Re: [dev] Fwd: HEAD

[Jon Parise]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 09:02:32PM -0500, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> One of the things I'd like to do is to completely switch the base framework
> over to packages, so that we can avoid some of the thornier upgrade
> problems. We'd still occasionally have bc issues, but anything that *added*
> functionality could just require a new package.

Yes, I absolutely agree.  It would inherently promote modularity and
clean interfaces, and it would probably encourage documentation.
 
> I haven't entirely thought it through, but I think this would let us be a
> lot more flexible going forward, and pushing out new functionality.
 
I think the biggest potential problem will be dependencies.  I don't
know how advanced the PEAR tools are today in that respect, but
versioning will definitely become an issue if we adopt this approach.

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