[Fedora-packaging] PHP packaging policy notes
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jun 30 13:53:56 UTC 2006
Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 10:52 +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
>
>> On "Other Packages": an application written in PHP or such like should
>> not have a php- prefix at all. A Smarty package should be called
>> "smarty" (following the "upper-case is evil" rule of packaging).
>
> Indeed, this is correct. The php-* (and php-pecl/pear) namespace are
> reserved for items that add new functionality/modules to PHP, not for
> applications written in PHP.
Smarty is not an application in itself; it's a library of PHP code used
in other applications. As such it adds functionality to PHP...
Paul.
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