Tweet This table compares PEAR and ZZ/OSS Installer. On that basis, developers can decide, which tool better suits their needs. As ZZ/OSS Installer is designed to install applications composed of PEAR-like packages, it has some clear advantages over PEAR Installer Continue reading
Tweet The PEAR Group has announced a new standard on version naming. ZZ/OSS will adopt it in total and future releases of our software will be compatible with the proposed standard. Slowly, but steadily, the PEAR Group sets basic and Continue reading
Tweet The PEAR group recently published New Guidelines for BC breaking releases. The idea is simple, for example one variant would be: Old API: MyPackage-1.2.tgz New API: MyPackage_2-0.9.tgz
Tweet … is the question of a current thread being discussed on pear-dev. Discussion mainly circles around “forking” PEAR to make a PEAR2 which might break BC to previous packages, run on PHP5 only, etc. Some quotes: Stopping in the Continue reading
Tweet Greg started a discussion question about PEAR vs. Zzoss installer on the pear-dev Mailinglist. I just realized it by chance because I unsubscribed myself from the list before my holidays. Now I am back, but too busy with work. Continue reading
Tweet There’s now more documentation online[1] for PEAR, covering several PEAR packages and PECL extensions. [1] http://pear.php.net/manual/en/
Tweet Finally, the PEAR Package Manager works on Windows. Check out the PEAR Weekly News [1] for more information. [1] http://pear.php.net/weeklynews.php
Tweet It seems like Christian Stocker found a way to raise the reputation of the PEAR class library project with his recent proposal: “I made a proposal to the pear-dev mailinglist about PEAR Foundation Classes (aka PFC). The main idea Continue reading