Comments on: New code in PEAR2

By: Kelv1n

Kelv1n — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:27:19 +0000

Its really great to know 5.3 is already being targetted, its concerned me recently that all the new features would simply go unused (easy to see this happening, especially when frameworks refuse to break back-compat).

By: Joshua Eichorn’s Blog: New code in PEAR2 | Development Blog With Code Updates : Developercast.com

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:05:35 +0000

[...] Eichorn has blogged about three new projects he’s added to the PEAR2 [...]

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:56:57 +0000

Also PEAR1 has target php 5+ for new code for at least a year, I don’t remember the official announcement, but I do know there aren’t any new php4 packages, just 5

By: Joshua Eichorn

Joshua Eichorn — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:52:50 +0000

In a nutshell PEAR2 is namespaced php 5.3 code with a development focus of a sandbox for code to mature (or be removed if it was just a bad idea or never finished) before it gets into the main release channel. The sandbox is open today, ping me if you’d like to get started.

For the basic PEAR2 rules
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/pear2cs.php
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/pear2policies.php

Of course how namespaces actually get used isn’t 100% yet we need some real examples before we set that.

By: Thomas Koch

Thomas Koch — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:33:17 +0000

Hi Joshua,

just a few weeks ago I asked some folks on a PHP meeting in Zuerich, whether they happen to know the status of PEAR2, but even core devs of PHP did not know.

So where should I go, if I have a small useful PHP5 library that I’d like to share with others? Making it PHP4 compatible only to get it into PEAR1 is crazy and PEAR2 seemed to be pretty dead.

Therefor I’m happy to see that PEAR2 is still alive and I’m curious to find out more about the rules you have agreed on.