Re: PEAR website

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:00:34 +0200, Tomas V.V.Cox wrote: >> And are there any plans to put the already-in-pear (not php4/pear) >> packages on the pear.php.net site for downloading? If so, it would be >> much more appealing to put the new pear-modules their, instead of >> bloating php4/pear more and more. > >I see three needed task, that can be done with the same script (in cron >or elsewhere). This is: get packages from cvs, build them with the >"pear package" and publish them in the website. So users could copy the >location of the package and launch "pear install url". I can help on >this if someone can give me access. I had the same thoughts a few days ago: My idea was to checkout the different packages from CVS (/pear and /php4/pear) and to read each package.xml in the root directories. The information from package.xml can e.g. be stored in a database. The source files are packed together into a .tar.gz- and/or a .bz2-file. All this can be done by a cron job e.g. all 4 hours. If someone want's to begin creating such a system, I'm willing to help him. More ideas? Comments? - Martin