Re: PEAR mirror

Tim Perdue wrote: > > A week after the obliteration of the PHPBuilder library, I put up an > article on PEAR and I think it's a really cool idea. I like the idea of > a central repository instead of everyone doing their own thing. > > How far away is PEAR from reality? What would it take to make a mirror > of it on PHPBuilder? > > I think this makes more sense than re-building the library on > PHPBuilder. PEAR is some way from reality yet, mostly because I don't have the time necessary to push the project into a self-maintaining state. I just added a TODO file to php4/pear. Here are the entries I've added so far: Infrastructure stuff: * finish database design * make XML DTD for package description files * build web site for uploading/downloading packages and XML description files * build tools for installing packages from the net PEAR code stuff: * finalize the PEAR_ERROR class * make regression tests for DB * get a Javadoc -> phpdoc/DocBook system up and running IMHO the most important thing right now is the infrastructure stuff. Take a look at pearweb/sql/design.txt for what I have in mind. - Stig