Re: On PEAR quality issues and natural selection

On Fri Apr 09, 2004 at 02:0645PM -0400, Greg Beaver wrote: > Hans Lellelid wrote: > >I think it's different -- but maybe I don't understand the channels > >feature. What I'm talking about is a network of repositories that > >anyone can create. PEAR will never be that will it? This is the > > This is the channel idea. None of this is implemented and will change > when the implementation is better understood. Well, technically one can even today set up a own repository that utilizes the PEAR installer infrastructure. Basically one needs to provide a XML-RPC server that supports the methods used by the installer. Additionally all packages in the repository need to exist in PEAR's package format. The XML-RPC server can then be set using $ pear config-set master_server http://example.com/ This solution surely is a bit cumbersome, because there is no list with all the necessary XML-RPC methods, but one can gather them from the sourcecode of the installer with relatively few work. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/