Re: Pyrus and SimpleChannelFrontend questions

On Wednesday, June 16, 2010, Michael Gauthier <mike@silverorange.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 12:59 -0500, Brett Bieber wrote: >> On Wednesday, June 16, 2010, Michael Gauthier <mike@silverorange.com> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'm working features for the PEAR2 website. The site uses Pyrus and >> > SimpleChannelFrontend (SCF) as the data source. >> > >> > I have a few of questions about Pyrus and SCF: >> > >> > 1. I can get package dependencies of a package using: >> >    $package->dependencies['required']->package >> >    The returned object is iterable. How come it isn't also >> >    countable? >> > >> > 2. Similarly, how come I can iterate a package to get releases >> >    but can not count the package to count the number of releases? >> > >> > 3. How can I get a list of maintainers for a package including >> >    full name and email address? >> > >> > 4. How can I get a list of the categories a package belongs to? >> > >> > 5. Is there any documentation? Even the class docs in the source >> >    code are missing. This code is going to be hard to maintain in >> >    the future since there are no explanations present in the code. >> >> Your best bet is to look at the unit tests for pyrus, and help >> document it. Basically you're using an object that represents the >> package.xml file. >> > I had a look at the unit tests to get maintainers. In pear2web, when I > do: > > foreach ($context->maintainer as $maintainer) { > } > > I get: > > PEAR2\Pyrus\Channel\Exception: Unable to locate a package release for > pear2.php.net/PEAR2_Autoload that can satisfy all dependencies > in > /so/servers/zest/sites/pearweb/pear2.php.net/trunk/includes/Pyrus/src/Pyrus/Channel/RemotePackage.php > on line 832 > > Any idea what I'm doing wrong? The default config uses preferred state of stable. Should probably set it to devel for our purposes. -- Brett Bieber University of Nebraska-Lincoln