Re: Requesting an account

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Matthew Taft <matthewetaft@gmail.com> wrote: > My name is Matthew Taft. I'm a web developer, and have used pecl in the > past for apc cache and xdebug. I was on the site, looking into getting an > account, and it told me to post here first. I don't have any additional > libraries to contribute, but I found what appears to be an error in an XML > info file. It looks like a really easy fix, and thought that if I were a > contributor I could fix this instead of posting a bug report. Basically, I > ran into this problem: > > # pecl search apc > Retrieving data...0%....50%Invalid xml downloaded from " > http://pecl.php.net/rest/p/pcsc/info.xml": XML Error: > 'Invalid character' > on line '9' > > It looks like the problem might be because someone tried to insert an > invalid character after the word "Windows," (maybe a trademark symbol?) and > XML doesn't like it. This issue is blocking me from searching for any > packages using pecl. If I get an account, would this be the kind of thing > where I could contribute and fix things like this? > > Sincereley, > Matthew > Somehow the file http://pecl.php.net/rest/p/pcsc/info.xml got truncated, this is why you are seeing the above mentioned error. About the account: the best way to get your own is either to submit a few patches first, or to present your own extension (not the idea of an extension, but the code itself). -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu