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alan_k Fri Aug 23 05:29:12 2002 EDT Added files: /pearweb/weeklynews 20020825.en.html Log: this weeks news ready for proofing and translation Index: pearweb/weeklynews/20020825.en.html +++ pearweb/weeklynews/20020825.en.html <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>x</title> </head> <body> <p><i><small>by Alan Knowles(alan_k@php.net)</small></i></p> <p>...<br> </p> <hr> <h2>New Releases</h2> <h3>Beta</h3> <ul> <li><b>DB_DataObject</b> - An SQL builder and Data Modeling Layer.</li> <li><b>.. -</b> .. </li> </ul> <h3>Alpha</h3> <ul> <li><b>.. -</b> ..</li> </ul> <h3>Development</h3> <ul> <li><b>MDB -</b> Release Candidate 2 of the PEAR MDB, Metabase Merger Database Abstraction Layer.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2>PEAR-DEV traffic</h2> <h3>Follow ups from previous weeks</h3> A lot of discussion followed on from last weeks topics, including Math_Vector, Math_Distance and The Bulk emailing was built as Mail_Queue, conflicts in System with the New Zend Engine and Wolfram continued to look into the issues of PHPUnit being to accurate for it's own good <h3>PHP docu integration into PEAR</h3> As it generally appears that phpdoc has been lacking in momentum, and PhpDocu is becoming the defacto standard for generating phpdoc output, after a few messages with the phpdocu team, it looks as if phpdocu will be adopted as the new API documentation tool for PEAR, and plans are underway to integrate it as a PEAR package. <h3>New API for Config Class</h3> Bertrand Mansion has been making changes and extending the functionality of the Config Class, this Change will have to make use of the PEAR installers ability to cope with installing old and new packages, as this change would break backward compatibility <h3>Perm_LiveUser now in CVS</h3> Marcus Wolff has added Perm_LiveUser to CVS, following a little fun getting the naming right. meanwhile Lukas Smith has also been working on Perm_LiveUser solving situations where Administrators change the permissions of a user, while they are logged in. <h3>Language Detection on the Weekly News</h3> Wolfram Kriesing suggested using the new I18N_Negotiator to help determine which language to display the weekly news in, Assuming we can get this package installed on the server Alan was keen to see it added. This means that if you have a default language set in your browser then it would automatically show you the right page. Ondrej Jombik suggested using the Net_Geo or something similar to determine country from IP addresses, Alan was not that keen as being in Hong Kong he would get Traditional Chinese (which he cant read), so preferred to let the user decide manually using the browser settings. <h3>MDB Release Candidate 2</h3> Lukas Smith announced that he had finished off Release Candidate 2 of the Metabase PEAR DB merger project, which included changes to the manager and an improved xml schema parser. He was hoping to get feedback (quickly) so he could finalize the full 1.0 release next week. <h3>PECL::Smbclient GPL issues</h3> Jelmer Vernooij's smbclient extension was committed into PEAR, drawing concern about the issues of dealing with GPL code that was linked with PHP. As PHP itself is under a BSD style license, linking GPL code into it causes license problems. These are similar to the issues that the Mozilla Project had incorporating GPL work, and eventually lead it to a Triple licensing scheme. Rasmus had put a note in the PEAR FAQ concerning this, and while generally where possible avoid linking against GPL work (LGPL is OK), the only way out of this may be to get a special 'grant' from the Samba team to allow smbclient to be linked against Jelmer's extension. <h3>Bugs and Fixes</h3> Alot of Bugs and Fixes where added this week, Thanks to these people for spotting them, Chuck Hagenbuch, Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg, Keith Schoenefeld, Pawe&#322; Go&#322;aszewski, Ondrej Jombik, Tabata Tomoyuki, Aaron Hawley <hr> <h2>New and Proposed Packages</h2> <h3>Net_IPv4, calculating broadcast, and network addresses</h3> Eric offered a small package that can do Network Calculations, this got no objections, so we look forward to having yet another useful tool in PEAR. <h3>Benchmark_Profiler</h3> Mathias Englert announced a Benchmark_Profiler, which although similar to Benchmark_Timer, had some added advantages for tallying up time spent within methods or functions. <hr> <h2>Development</h2> Active on CVS this week has been Auth, Cache_Lite, DB_DataObject, Image_Transform, Math_Vector, MDB, Net_CheckIP, Net_DNS, NetIPv4, PECL::smbc, PECL::tclink, Perm_LiveUser, PHPDoc, SOAP, Tree, Validate. <h3>New and Updated Documentation</h3> Changes and additions to PECL::Soap, Net_IPv4 and pear documentation should show up this week. </body> </html>