Re: pear list-packages and more

Cool work Stig! Time to test it :-) Tomas V.V.Cox "Stig S. Bakken" wrote: > > Hi, > > The first pear sub-command communicating through xmlrpc with the > backend is implemented. Also, there's a simple configuration > interface that lets you read and write configuration values from a > system-wide file (for example /etc/pear.conf) and a per-user file (for > example ~/.pearrc). Configuration data is stored as a serialized PHP > array right now. > > How to test the new stuff: > > pear -d master_server=your.dev.box -s > > This is _supposed to_ store your configuration in ~/.pearrc (I haven't > had time to test everything thoroughly yet). > > To update the system defaults (set the system-defined master server to > pear.php.net): > > pear -D master_server=pear.php.net -S > > Also you can speficy an alternate config file with -c: > > pear -c ~someotheruser/.pearrc list-packages > > As you may have noticed, the uppercase options are for the system-wide > stuff, while the lowercase options are for the per-user stuff. The > old -d, -p, -e and -v options have been removed, use "-d foo=bar" > instead (-d is doc_dir -p is php_dir -e is ext_dir and -v is > verbose). These options can be set in the system and user config > files too. > > Finally, there's a mechanism to call "any" xmlrpc method in the pear > script now: the PEAR_Remote class. Here's how to use it: > > $config = new PEAR_Config; > $remote = new PEAR_Remote($config); > $result = $remote->call("package.add", $my_package_data); > > This is actually equivalent with running this code on the server: > > $result = package::add($my_package_data); > > The rest is taken care of by the xmlrpc layer. There's just one thing > you need to be aware of, and that is if you are passing date or binary > data parameters to PEAR_Remote::call, then you need to use > xmlrpc_settype on those fields first. Shouldn't affect much though. > > - Stig > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: pear-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: pear-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net