Re: Re: REST, SOAP or XML-RPC?

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 23:00 -0600, Gregory Beaver wrote: > Why not use PEAR itself? The last chapter of my book > (http://www.packtpub.com/book/PEAR-installer) is a step-by-step tutorial > on designing just such a module that would allow downloads of module > code from a remote server. It also includes all the code, which is > publicly and freely available from the pear.chiaraquartet.net channel > (package MyBlog). The code is a useful example of embedding the PEAR > installer and of designing customized REST, but it might be tricky to > understand the design methodology without the prose of the book. Greg, Thanks. I have actually already set up a PEAR channel server a year (or more) back when the channel server code was first released. I never really got round to playing with it much, but now seems as good a time as any! ;) My vision was to actually package the entire framework and all modules as packages on that server, but at the time, I was really busy, and didn't really look into it as hard as I should have...My main concern was that some of our users/partners were struggling with installing PEAR as it was, and our framework is basically glue that holds *most* of the PEAR packages together and then some on top of that. If there is a more elegant way of integrating the PEAR installer etc into the framework, as a plugin module, you would have answered my prayers! I will take a look at your book as well. Is there somewhere I can buy it from as well? We are soft funded GPL project, and as such we have a huge budget for literature that we hardly use. I would like to support PEAR and its developers in other ways too (not just patches, bug reports and testing...) I will hack around with the code a while and see what I can come up with. I don't really want to spend so much time on this that it becomes a mission, and I _know_ that PEAR works elegantly... Thanks again for your input. I will let you know what happens. --Paul