Re: Re: PEAR channel server for applications and libraries outside PEAR

Greg Beaver wrote:

Sebastian Nohn 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?
    

I don't see a suggestion or a patch in your reply, perhaps I missed it? Would it be possible to use a cache of all of the known packages on a given channel, and attempt to pick the appropriate one when possible (i.e., only one exists) and prompt for multiple packages? $ pear update-channels $ pear install Great_Package <-- installs from pear.great-package.net $ pear install Multiple_Channels Multiple packages were detected, select one: [1] Multiple_Channels from pear.multiple-channels.net [2] Multiple_Channels from pear.php.net [A] Abort without installing Choose one [A]: -Travis