Re: pear installer in PHP 5.1 RC1
| From: | greg at chiaraquartet dot net | Date: | Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:54:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: pear installer in PHP 5.1 RC1 | ||
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But we'd need to understand where the
> troublespots are and how much work may be left.
Hi,
First off, this will not be a long reply because I'm "typing" on a Treo 650,
which is far too slow for the time available to me.
PEAR 1.4 has one extremely untested feature, binary package installs. I have
completed a successful test of this feature on my development box using a
preferred_mirror setting of the local box, but there is a significant lack of
feedback (read: none).
There is some tweaking needed to package.xml 2.0 although not much. I've been
talking to several devs offlist and we've had improvements to the format of
post-install scripts and also I have a solution to the problem of the license
tag location.
REST is fixed at pearweb and has been for 2 weeks at least. There is a bug in
the caching code that was just fixed and will be committed tonight.
areas we need serious help in are:
1) unit tests for REST are scarce. I won't feel comfortable with a beta until
we have them.
2) API docs for internal classes. I had been generating skels using phpdoc and
fleshing them by hand. This is tedious, hard work that requires good
understanding of how things work.
3) we need at least 1 release of PEAR with errorstack split out.
4) REST is not yet enabled for peclweb. This is not a biggie.
I will write more later.
Greg