Re: pear installer in PHP 5.1 RC1

greg@chiaraquartet.net wrote: > 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. Ok, for now let's just go with the ext/xmlrpc dependency I just committed. I'd still like to go to 1.4 soon, but I don't want to hold up RC1 for it. Could you guys please check the changes I made in the PHP_5_1 tree? I am pretty sure the mock client/server test cases are broken now. -Rasmus