Re: PEAR infrastructure for package distribution?

Mario Salzer wrote:

Stephan Schmidt wrote:

PEAR can be used this way, some of our projects can be installed using PEAR: http://pear.php-tools.net/

Ah nice. So it is definitely working fine for package distribution.

There's Greg's PEAR_Server package as well as a frontend package by Davey. You'll find some links in a blog entry I wrote about our server: http://blog.php-tools.net/archives/120-All-new-pat-channel-server.html

Maybe, I just use Google next time... :) Thanks for the note. I just wonder why this package isn't in PEAR(.php.net) itself yet?

That's a long story. Suffice to say that the original reason is that the package is not yet ready for the quality that the PEAR label (should in my opinion) imply, and a few other reasons that no longer apply. Also, my time is unfortunately limited, and as such I have not been able to maintain all of the software I've written as lovingly as 2 of me would be able to. However, time permitting, it will probably be proposed as a PEAR package sometime in the not too distant future. PEAR_Server is badly in need of unit tests, documentation, and some re-factoring now that it is REST-based. Greg