[Typo3-dev] TER, Extensions, PEAR integration

[Thorsten Kahler]

Hi Rafael,
hi folks,

I would embrace having an easy way of integrating PEAR classes into TYPO3  
core and extensions.

I stumbled over a footnote on pear.php.net last year, when I was searching  
for a library to integrate some web service into/as an extension. It said  
it was possible to retrieve information about PEAR extensions and even  
download them via XML-RPC[1]. I thought it would be possible to integrate  
this into the extension manager and to add a kind of PEAR dependency to  
ext_emconf.php. (Btw.: As the specifications for the project changed I  
didn't follow this idea further.)

E.g. in Intl. PHP Magazine 6.2004 [2] was an article about PEAR  
Mail::Queue[3] that seemed to offer a solution to the mail dilemma we're  
faced to everyday.

Just some thoughts that came to my mind during the last nine months...

Regards Thorsten


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:26:12 +0200, Rafael Schär [beYou media]  
<typo3 at goldkueste.ch> wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I just got an email concerning my little pear integration extension  
> "bypear". [...]
> It's a mail from a person who works in the pear-team.
> He wants to know about kaspers an others opinions about a smooth  
> integration of pear.
> Would it be worth enough to integrate pear and a dependendy management  
> into the TER.
> There could be something like this:
> extension needs bypear und PEAR::Whatever.
> Through an automatical installation using the pear installation and  
> administration Framework, you could get the needed libraries.
>
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Greetinx
>
> Rafael

[1] http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.php
[2] http://www.php-mag.net
[3] http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Queue