RE: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [midgard-dev] Re: [PEAR-DEV] Midgard in the sky with ... PEAR?

> From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:ml@nzl.com.ar] > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 11:55 PM > Martin Jansen wrote: > >>- the announcements are done through the PEAR channels > > You're wrong here: When you release packages outside of pear.php.net, > > there will be no announcement on the PEAR mailinglists or the website. > > Martin, > > both you and Lukas have said that I misunderstood about the > announcements. Hmmm, I seem to have misunderstood Betrand when he said: > > > These packages don't have to use PEAR CVS, but they can still take > advantage > > of PEAR promotion system and PEAR installer. You just need to package > your > > packages with the pear installer using a package.xml package > description. > > (that's a lot of "package" word, this mail is going to rank number one > in > > search engine for this keyword...) > > as he was referring to generic packages. So are thing clear now? Basically you can use the pear installer totally separate of PEAR. However in order for a package to be considered a PEAR package it will still how to go through a number of steps: 1) name approval 2) PEAR CS complaint etc 3) uploaded to pear.php.net things like PEAR CVS are optional regards, Lukas