Re: PHP_Archive Last call for comments before vote!

Davey wrote:

Hey PEARs! I am now ready to Cfv on PHP_Archive, I fell I've done enough work for you to cast an informed vote on the package. There are some things I'd like to do before a 1.0.0 release: 1) Allow package signing using GPG 2) Create a CLI tool for creating package and for adding/checking sigs

I think the tool you're looking for is called "pear." Avoid re-inventing the wheel here. If there is a shortcoming in PEAR, then you need to address that shortcoming. Take a peek at 1.4.0 now that I've dived into unit testing. Specifically these things will be very useful: PEAR_PackageFile_v*->getFileContents() used to retrieve the contents of a file from the .tgz or .tar based on its name in the package.xml (should remove the profanity from non-working compression :) the ability to define custom roles. Simply define a bootstrap role, and you can define the start script with <file role="bootstrap" name="whatever.php"/> This will also be good because you'll be able to take existing pear packages and create .phars from them with minimal changes. Greg