Re: PEAR channel server for applications and libraries outside PEAR

Justin Patrin wrote: > On 6/1/07, Sebastian Nohn <sebastian@nohn.net> wrote: >> Greg Beaver wrote: >> > Sebastian Nohn wrote: >> >> Hi Christian, >> >> >> >> Christian Weiske wrote: >> >> >> >>> PEAR is the best method to distribute PHP libraries, and since it >> also supports multiple channels, also a very convenient way to >> distribute PHP applications. >> >>> Some apps already have their own channel server (e.g. Geeklog, >> http://pear.geeklog.net/ ), other apps and libs do have >> PEAR-installable packages, but don't want to set up and maintain a >> complete channel server (e.g. OpenID libraries, >> http://www.openidenabled.com/openid/libraries/php ). >> >>> >> >>> The ideal place for those projects would be a dedicated PEAR >> channel server that is open for everyone. pearified.com has been >> started as such a project, but the lead, Clay Loveless, does not >> respond to any emails. >> >>> Suggestions, ideas, volunteers? >> >> I think, first the pear command line tool should be able to perform >> all >> >> end user commands in a comfortable way on different channels. >> > >> > pear config-set default_channel whatever.com >> > >> > then all end user commands will work identically to the way they work >> > for pear.php.net. >> > >> > (This has worked since PEAR 1.4.0 FYI) >> >> Do you call that comfortable? >> > > THere's always pear upgrade channel://package as well. It is a reality > that multiple channels can have packages names the same, hence the > need for disambiguation via the channel name. # pear upgrade phpunit/phpunit Nothing to upgrade # pear upgrade phpunit://phpunit Cannot initialize 'phpunit://phpunit', invalid or missing package file Package "phpunit://phpunit" is not valid upgrade failed # pear upgrade http://pear.phpunit.de/get/PHPUnit-3.0.6.tgz downloading PHPUnit-3.0.6.tgz ... Starting to download PHPUnit-3.0.6.tgz (100,140 bytes) ......................done: 100,140 bytes WARNING: channel "pear.phpunit.de" has updated its protocols, use "channel-update pear.phpunit.de" to update Did not download optional dependencies: pear/Image_GraphViz, pear/Log, pear/Testing_Selenium, use --alldeps to download automatically phpunit/PHPUnit can optionally use package "pear/Image_GraphViz" (version >= 1.2.1) upgrade ok: channel://pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit-3.0.6 That is not very intuitive. What if I want to upgrade the whole channel? Or list all packages in a channel? Or just upgrade all packages, no matter what channel they are in? - Sebastian