Re: packages that need love ..

Bonsoir, Lukas Smith wrote:

If the current open bugs about 1 forth of all PEAR bugs fall on 4 packages. Just the open (not counting assigned, verified etc) the numbers are as follows: Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer: 43 SOAP: 21 Auth: 18 Mail_Mime: 16 While some of these are feature requests most are marked as bugs. Obviously I do not know how many duplicate/bogus reports are in there (especially for Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer). Also SOAP development is understandably more or less halted (though Jan did commit to it back in Juli). As for Auth we really need a new release, that also fixes the BC issues in the last beta. Finally Mail_Mime seems to have quite a number of developers, but the last work was in June. Eitherway these seem like perfect candidates for a note on their website about their status and a request for assistance. regards, Lukas Some more:

[root@ancilla pear-core]# pear -d preferred_state=alpha list-upgrades pear.php.net Available Upgrades (alpha, beta, stable): ======================================================

Channel      Package       Local           Remote          Size

pear.php.net HTTP_Download 1.1.0RC2 (beta) 1.1.0RC3 (beta) 11.4kB

pear.php.net Net_DNS       1.0.0rc1 (beta) 1.0.0b3 (beta)  26kB
pear.php.net Net_NNTP      1.1.2 (beta)    1.2.3 (alpha)   22kB
[root@ancilla pear-core]# pear upgrade HTTP_Download-beta Net_DNS-beta Net_NNTP-beta
Package "pear.php.net/HTTP_Download" dependency "pecl.php.net/Archive_Zip" has no releases

Skipping package "pear/Net_DNS", already installed as version 1.0.0rc1 Skipping package "pear/Net_NNTP", already installed as version 1.1.2 No valid packages found upgrade failed The Archive_Zip (Archive_Tar) were seemingly abandoned or forgot, but Vincent Blavet (attention not the Lascaux one :) ) did privately some more releases. I don't know him but I intend to personaly phone him if noone here has contacts. A new case just reported in IRC: (thanks Elan Ruusamäe aka glen) [root@ancilla pear-core]# pear install Image_Remote-beta File http://pear.php.net:80/rest/r/image_remote/1.0.xml not valid (received: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found ) Cannot initialize 'Image_Remote-beta', invalid or missing package file Package "Image_Remote-beta" is not valid install failed [root@ancilla ~]# pear install Image_Remote-1.0.tgz Unable to open /tmp/tmpKnZ1u3/package.xml Cannot initialize 'Image_Remote-1.0.tgz', invalid or missing package file Package "Image_Remote-1.0.tgz" is not valid install failed [root@ancilla Image_Remote]# tar xvzf ../Image_Remote-1.0.tgz Image_Remote-1.0 Image_Remote-1.0/Remote.php Image_Remote-1.0/package.xml [root@ancilla Image_Remote]# cd Image_Remote-1.0/ [root@ancilla Image_Remote-1.0]# pear install package.xml install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Image_Remote-1.0 Funny effect, perhaps due to old version numbering. Sorry for this long spam :) à+ -- bertrand "toggg" Gugger