Re: Ghost packages in PEAR

From: Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:56:16 +0000
Subject: Re: Ghost packages in PEAR
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Hi! Jan Lehnardt wrote:
I decided to check the relation of PEAR CVS to actual packages published via PEAR website. Got some interesting results.
This is useful information, thank you. Did you collect it by hand or is there some way to do it automagically? It would be cool to have a list in some QA corner of paer.php.net.
Semi-automatically. I made a list of all dirs within PEAR CVS, made a script that requested the pages on PEAR website of the form http://pear.php.net/package/[dir name] and looked at the response for the tokens 'Error 404' and 'This package has not released anything'. Then I manually checked the results of 'Error 404' and posted the final lists...

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