Comments on: Zend Framework Automatic Dependency Tracking

By: Pavel Dubinin

Pavel Dubinin — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:37:31 +0000

This looks very nice indeed! I found your post accidentially, but this is really something I was thinking about myself. Zend library is huge and very often it is hard to deploy as the size of the installation package becomes really huge. Good to know there’s a nice and elegant solution availabe to solve this.

I think if this is combined with good covered unit testing, it might be able to detect all dependecies for the application in one shot (I would rather use “Package Dependencies”).

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By: Federico

Federico — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:36:27 +0000

Yes, I was using the prefix Trex_* in 2006, I’ll stick to that one next time.

In case someone wants to change the prefix:
$ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i ’s/Zend_Debug_Include/My_Debug_Include/’

Thanks

By: Ralph Schindler

Ralph Schindler — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:17:56 +0000

Hey Federico!

This is actually a pretty interesting article. I would like to take the code for a spin. When you think about concepts like “freezing” (in rails & others) of system library code to an applications library directory, this kind of analyzer would indeed be great to minify the project.

Also, I think it would prove to be more beneficial if you had a more personal prefix on this.. like FC_xxx or PHPImpact_xxx, this way these classes can reside next to ZF on someones system.

Cheers!
Ralph

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:35:28 +0000

This is indeed a cool extension of the debug library. I was in need of something like this because I only want to ship parts of Zend and other libraries that are actually used in my code without having to worry about what depends on what.

With this, my code coverage tests can also tell me the libraries that are all used so I only need to upgrade and track what is used.

Thanks a lot for this Federico!

By: khelonium

khelonium — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:41:36 +0000

I needed a similar solution at some point in the past. Your solution is nicer , I especially like the url adapter. What I did back then is to extend Zend_Loader that basically did something similar. In that way , I could enable it or disable it at will. I am sure a lot of people need this type of functionality , and it would be an alternative to generating all sort of graphs using external tools , so a proposal will be nice. Perhaps the tool would just list packages instead of files , and you woun’t have those 2365 files , instead x packages.

By: Federico

Federico — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:19:22 +0000

I’m not sure a lot of people are going to be interested in this component. Solar and Zend have in total 2365 files, without counting your own files My_*. For what I know, a lot of people find it easier to drop everything inside the libraries/ folder and forget about it. The downside of this is that you end up deploying 2000 library files and 20 application files, and if you are deploying an open source application, or handing over some code to a client or colleague, it might not be the best option. It would be interesting to find out how other developers are deploying their applications and libraries.