Re: CVS tree: /pear versus /php4/pear and bug report for pear package manager

--- Jean-Philippe CIVADE <jp.civade@100p100.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't understand why there are two branches named pear in the CVS tree: > /pear & /php4/pear > Does anybody could explain? Historically all of pear was distributed w/ php. Now the core classes are still there, the rest are in its own dir. Read the manual on pear.php.net for more details. > I've also seen many packages (like the excel one) i'd like to use in the > /pear CVS. However, those packages are not listed thru package-info.php. Is > there some kind of "official" and "unofficial" packages? Was is the risk to > use a pear class not listed thru package-info.php in prduction > environnement? Releases are up to the package writers, so if they have not created the appropriate package.xml, and then done a release, it is not listed as a release, although is still in CVS. > > Last, but not least, the PHPDOC from phpdoc.de seems to have big problems > during parsing phase because cr or cr/lf. Does this have been improve > recently? Wrong group. Ask in the phpdoc mailing list, in particular as the german editors/translators. Each translation team has its own coordinator and procedures, ask them directly. > Bug report for Pear package manager: > I've seen a bug in the pear package manager. I've installed it with the > piped shell. At install time, i've given an other directory than > /usr/local/lib/php. This directory was not saved by pear installer. The > first time i've used pear command, it complains about missing packages. > I've set up the pear package location variable, saved it and everithing came > back to normal. which one have you used? the one in CVS? the one in the 4.2.0 distribution? BTW, most of your questions/comments/reports are better for in pear-dev, in particular the bug report. I am cc'ing this msg to that list > > > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > ===== --- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) Research: http://metallo.scripps.edu/ Personal: http://www.castagnetto.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com