Re: pear installer in PHP 5.1 RC1

From: 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

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