pear installer sanity check

The pear installer is going to be a key element to the success of PEAR. It has a few issues at this point. A quick walkthrough: % pear list-installed Installed packages: =================== +----------------+----------+--------+ | Package | Version | State | | Archive_Tar | 0.4 | stable | | Console_Getopt | 0.10 | beta | | PEAR | 0.10-dev | beta | | DB | 1.2 | stable | | XML_Parser | 1.0 | stable | | XML_RPC | 1.0.3 | stable | +----------------+----------+--------+ Good % pear help package-info <pear package> Shows information about a PEAR package Not a great help page, but ok, it tells me I need to specify a pear package name: % pear package-info DB tgz :: could not open file Ungood % pear upgrade DB upgrade to a newer version (1.2 is not newer than 1.2) ok % pear list-remote-packages <PRE>---GOT--- HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 21:29:30 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) PHP/4.2.0RC2 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.0RC2 Content-length: 52599 Connection: close Content-Type: text/xml &lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding=&quot;iso-8859-1&quot; ?&gt; &lt;methodResponse&gt; &lt;params&gt; &lt;param&gt; &lt;value&gt; &lt;struct&gt; &lt;member&gt; &lt;name&gt;Archive_Tar&lt;/name&gt; ... uh? At the end of reams and reams of raw XML I finally do get a readable list. % pear install Date installed file /usr/local/lib/php/Date.php installed file /usr/local/lib/php/Date/TimeZone.php install ok: Date 1.1 % pear list-installed Installed packages: =================== +----------------+----------+--------+ | Package | Version | State | | Archive_Tar | 0.4 | stable | | Console_Getopt | 0.10 | beta | | PEAR | 0.10-dev | beta | | DB | 1.2 | stable | | XML_Parser | 1.0 | stable | | XML_RPC | 1.0.3 | stable | | Date | 1.1 | stable | +----------------+----------+--------+ Cool It would also be good if shortcuts could be added for common operations. Perhaps: login (li) Connects and authenticates to remote server logout (lo) Logs out from the remote server config-show (csh) Show All Settings config-get (cg) Show One Setting config-set (cs) Change Setting install (i) Install Package upgrade (up) Upgrade Package uninstall (u) Un-install Package package (p) Build Package package-info (pi) Show Package Info package-list (pl) List Files in Package package-validate (pv) Validate Package cvstag (cvs) Set CVS Release Tag run-tests (rt) Run Regression Tests list-installed (l) List Installed Packages shell-test (stest) Shell Script Test remote-package-info (ri) Information About Remote Package list-upgrades (lu) List Available Upgrades list-remote-packages (lr) List Remote Packages download (d) Download Package -Rasmus