Re: PEAR channels in GitHub? Support us!

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Kristopher Ives <kristopher.ives@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for the information Micheal. I didn't understand how this involved > the official repositories. So this is basically a vote to create a system > that would mirror the PEAR projects being hosted on GitHub via a PEAR > channel? > Couldn't this be implemented fully on the client-side? Would it be possible > to create a "virtual" PEAR channel that bridges from GitHub hosted PEAR > projects? I may have missed something so please let me know how far away I > am on this one. > Good Day, > Kris The idea is to have something like pear.github.com so whoever chooses to use github for a PHP project, can take advantage of a PEAR channel without setting one up on their own. The idea is not to replace anything PEAR itself offers, nor does it mean that all packages on Github's future pear channel are a part of the official PEAR repository and subject to PEAR's rules and standards. This is just an effort to provide a public channel to projects that happen to be hosted on Github - nothing more, nothing less. I think it's a great idea since evangelism is on our todo list anyway. This would expose the concept of distributing PHP "scripts" (and applications) through a PEAR-style channel to many people. As Helgi put it, It's a chance to offer something to/for PHP projects hosted on Github, which has been available to all Ruby projects for a while now. Till