Re: PEAR channel server for applications and libraries outside PEAR

On 6/1/07, Sebastian Nohn <sebastian@nohn.net> wrote:

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\

This seems like a bug. Have you upgraded PEAR to the newest version? If so, create a bug report.

That is not very intuitive. What if I want to upgrade the whole channel?

That's not supported AFAIK but a channel argument to upgrade-all would take care of that.

Or list all packages in a channel?

pear list -c channel

Or just upgrade all packages, no matter what channel they are in?

pear upgrade-all (and pear list-upgrades) Remember that channels are relatively new. If you have suggestions for a better UI please e-mail the list and create a bug in the tracker for us. Greg is hard at work on Pyrus, the next version of the PEAR installer. -- Justin Patrin