Re: Pear Newbie

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 08:31:15 -0500 "Bryan Bateman" <bryanbateman@earthlink.net> wrote: > I am new to Pear but not to PHP. I would like to ask some basic questions. > > Is there still a working interest in PEAR?? It seems that development, > support, etc. has stalled. Was PEAR ever meant to work on a Windows > Platform?? The information and packaging seems to be geared to Unix. I had > a VERY difficult time adding a PEAR module to an existing Win binary ( kept > being misdirected to the wrong install directory). I´m sorry for having to tell you this, but the PEAR project has been abandoned due to lack of interest by the PHP community. Naaaah, just kidding :-) Just have a look at http://pear.php.net/weeklynews.php and you´ll see that PEAR probably is more active now than ever before. There are lots of developers and lots of really cool packages. Some of course are being updated more often than others (on the other hand, why update packages that don´t need an update?). Developing with PEAR on Windows is no problem. I develop all my stuff on Windows first and then deploy on Linux. A nice side effect of this is that it teaches a lot about platform independent scripting :-) If you have trouble getting PEAR installed on Windows try the new browser-enabled version of the Go-Pear script. You can find it here: http://dickmann.homeunix.org/pear/go-pear.html It makes things a lot more convenient. Always remember: Convenience brings victory - and victory is LIFE! :-) Regards, Markus -- Markus Wolff <wolff@21st.de>