Re: PEAR developers guide

On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 10:31, Martin Jansen wrote: > On Sat, 11 May 2002 14:07:57 -0600 (MDT), Eric wrote: > > >A "Getting Started" section would be nice to have in here. I just started > >looking at PEAR yesterday, and it seems that either the information on the > >website isn't organized well, or there is just too much confusion between > >PEAR and PHP. > > This has also been requested by another person. I don't think that > this really belongs into the developers guide, but I'll surely write > a "Getting started" chapter. :-) > >1) pear requires --with-xmlrpc (seems undocumented?). The pear program > >exits with a non-descriptive error if extension_loaded("xmlrpc") fails. > > Yeah, we could actually print a nicer error message. Stig? I have something in the works. All xmlrpc operations are done through the PEAR_Remote class, which will use the xmlrpc extension if available, or fall back to the XML_RPC package if not. The XML_RPC package is bundled with PHP as of two days ago. > >2) the go-pear script downloads and installs pear packages, but does not > >register them (most notably the PEAR package). chicken/egg problem? > > You should blame Tomas for this :-). All it has to do is "pear install -r ..." to register stuff as installed. Let me know if you get any problems with this Tomas. > >I'm willing to help with documentation and organization. As I'm new, I > >don't really know what to do yet. Is there a PEAR "TODO" list? > > http://cvs.php.net/co.php/pear/TODO - Stig