Need Help with PEAR Package Creation

Hi -- I've been wrestling with trying to get my completed code into the correct format for proposal submission to the group. I don't want to waste people's time with an incomplete proposal, but I can't seem in the manual or anywhere a step-by-step process to get your code into the proper PEAR package, including how to build your package.xml (or package2.xml) using either an editor or a PEAR app specifically built for it. I tried downloading a recent package and evaluating how it was done, but reverse engineering a package I'm not even sure meets the PEAR expectation is probably a bad idea. From the Manual, which I have read:

    * I've found a name, Numbers_CountryDialingCode
    * Category: Numbers
    * Package description: Convert international dialing codes to country
      codes and vice versa.
    * License: Artistic License (same as Perl)
    * Examples and Docs: Need some help here; I can write good docs, and
      have docbook experience, but having a step-by-step process to test
      the docs would be nice, since I'm not THAT good and docbook.  The
      code is phpDocumentor documented.
    * No dependencies.

I'm looking for the newbie guide for building a PEAR package. The docs are there but all over the place, and there is no simple step-by-step process for a newbie to go through. I was hoping that writing the code/library would be the hard part, but making it PEARified has been the stumbling block. Help? I'd be happy to write it up once I go through it, and add it to the manual. Beckman ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Peter Beckman                                                  Internet Guy
beckman@purplecow.com                             http://www.purplecow.com/

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