Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Delivery

[Verdon V. <ve...@ve...>]

Morning :)

On 3-Jan-07, at 8:27 AM, Matthew McNaney wrote:

> Good morning.
>
> I am looking for feedback on how the core and modules should be
> distributed.
>
> Initially, modules untarred to their own directory. For example,
> blog_1_3_4.tgz would untar as the directory blog/.
>
> This was confusing some people so I changed it to mod/module_name so
> they could be untarred in the root installation.
Either of these is fine and intuitive for me, but I think mod/ 
module_name seems a more common sort of convention. The only problem  
this might cause is that any 3rd-party mods from the phpws-comm  
project will not follow this convention and that could lead to  
confusion for new users.

>
> As for the core, some people are untarring that distro into the core
> directory when, in fact, it needs to be decompressed and copied  
> into the
> root.
>
> How would you prefer this be done? How would you like the modules and
> core to untar? When decompressed, what should the directories be  
> named?
> Is "core" a misleading name for the base files of phpwebsite?
I must admit to being slightly confused by this the first time. I too  
thought that 'core' meant things in the core directory only. It  
didn't take me long to realize that my assumption was wrong, but I  
can see the confusion :)

Perhaps the word 'core' should be reserved for things in the core dir  
and some other term used for core files not in the core dir ;-)

>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter what convention you choose, someone  
will misunderstand it.

The most common convention that I see in other projects is that all  
updates and patches and add-ons can be expanded into the root dir and  
the appropriate dir/file structure is reflected in the update/patch/ 
add-on.


salut,
verdon