Re: Help setting up a PEAR clone

Scott, PEAR works using XML-RPC. As such any clone wishing to do the "real thing" would need to setup an XML-RPC server with the correct code behind it to handle everything. Also, when the person changes their PEAR install to install from your server they then would need to change back to pear.php.net to install PEAR package. Luckily, Greg has implemented channels in the PEAR 1.4.0a1 (alpha) release coming soon, this will allow you to setup a server which is a channel server. All servers will be channel servers, the only difference between yours and PEARs would be that PEARs is the default ;) What this means is the user can *add* your server as another place to grab packages from. The format of this is "pear install channel/package" where "channel" is an alias for your server and "package" is the package name. Greg has also written a PEAR_Server package which will make setting up a PEAR Channel Server easy, but will depend on the users having PEAR 1.4.0a1 See this post for more info on PEAR_Server: http://greg.chiaraquartet.net/archives/19-Its-official-pear.chiaraquartet.net-is-live.html#extended Hope this helps - Davey Scott Mattocks wrote:

Hello, We want to start distributing our internal PHP code using a PEAR style system. Basically we want a developer to be able to release code that others can then download and install using the pear command. I understand that the developer needs to write the package.xml file, and the user needs to point pear to the right server, but want needs to happen on the server side? The server needs to check the version and decide whether or not to send the file right? Are there any packages, tutorials or anything that will help us? Thanks for any tips.