Re: PEAR in PHP releases

On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 17:31, Martin Jansen wrote: > Hi, > > some people have complained that the PEAR code that comes with > the PHP distributions is often outdated. The reason for this > seems to be the fact, that the people who change code in PEAR > only merge the changes into HEAD but not into the current release > testing branch (e.g. PHP_4_1_2). > > We have two chances to avoid this in the next release: > > 1.: The PEAR developers merge all changes to /php4/pear/* that > should be in the next release of PHP into the current release > testing branch after they have commited it to HEAD. > > 2.: When releasing a new PHP distribution, the guy, who makes the > release tarball etc., takes /php4/pear from HEAD and not from > PHP_4_x_y, so that the most recent version of PEAR is present. > > Personally I prefer 1, since we then also have some kind of > QA for PEAR. I think 1 is the way to go. I've done it once or twice before, will do it for 4.2.0 too unless there are wild protests. - Stig