PEAR installer in the wild

A while ago I started rolling all our small "cli tools" at work into PEAR packages and while they are by no means perfect, almost every time, I'm amazed how great and simple it is to install/uninstall software and manage its dependencies through the little "pear" command. Especially when in comparison I have to deal with legacy code which does not use any of the above. ;-) So I think we ought to have a list of projects/people who use the most-awesome PEAR installer to distribute their app/plugins/whatever. So for example, check out: http://solarphp.com/ http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/packaging_a_magento_extension http://geeklog.org/ http://ezcomponents.org/ http://phpDoctrine.org/ http://phpundercontrol.org/ http://www.symfony-project.org/ http://code.google.com/p/xinc/ http://pecl.php.net/ http://midcom-project.org/ (Incomplete, and in no particular order.) I'm sure there are more projects (there is also a channel list somewhere on our website) and even companies who use the PEAR installer to deploy applications. So wouldn't it make sense to showcase that? I know I just said there is a list, but what I really want is to create a buzz and get some opinion on there why people use the PEAR installer, vs. the infamous "unzip and go". It should also go into a more promiment spot (frontpage, rotate show cases?). A lot of people always perceive installing through "pear install foo" as a overhead, because (I think) they don't know better. And real-life-examples tend to work much better on those people than a 100 pages in the manual exercising why this is great. We all know (Don't we?) that the little overhead it may add ("You need a working install") is easily outscored by all the benefits of a managable software installation and dependency tracking. On a sidenote - we [PEAR] would also get some exposure from it since some of these projects get way more attention and press than we do. :-) This [sh,c]ould go into the redesign thread from a week or two ago. Thoughts? Till