[Fedora-packaging] PHP packaging policy notes
Tom 'spot' Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Jun 30 13:37:24 UTC 2006
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.
~spot
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