Re: Misunderstanding on what PEAR is
| From: | Jon Parise | Date: | Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:09:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Misunderstanding on what PEAR is | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.pear.dev |
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 07:45:28AM -0700, Robert Kelly wrote:
> If you are developer and have PEAR compliant code, why can't you just start
> your own sourceforge.net repository? You'd be able to drop all your code in
> there, distribute from there and allow others to download from there? Is
> there something wrong with NOT being part of the PEAR repository?
That's perfectly fine. In fact, if you follow the PEAR standards
for package distribution (i.e. using the package.xml format), the
PEAR installer that ships with PHP will even be able to install /
manage packages from your SourceForge repository.
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