Re: PEAR in PHP 4.3.0

> According to recent news on php-dev, Andrei is going to branch PHP > 4.3.0 as soon as two or three outstanding critical bugs are fixed. > > Even if the release is still weeks away, for us this means that we > should get our asses up and start cleaning up the > infrastructure, because I personally don't want to see the release > process of PHP being delayed because of PEAR. Apart from that we > should stress-test both the PEAR installer and the website. > > As a start it would be nice to see who has patches pending that should > be in 4.3.0. Apart from that we are seeking people that are willing to > try the PEAR installer on their machines (it looks like especially > Windows setups need some testing). I use the pear installer under winnt 4 with proxy authentication. Things work fine for me. I did try all the functionnalities of the pear command though. > I guess the website right now only has some more or less serious bugs > in release uploading. The two most important onces seem to be: > > a) dependencies are not registered. > b) maintainers are not properly assigned in the database. > > In addition to this two issues, we should perhaps try to get the new > version of the manual out soon. Alexander: How far are you with this?