Re: Requesting an account

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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). > > I checked the original xml file, it is suspicious that the file get truncated right before the ® character... -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu