Community News: Latest PECL Releases for 02.12.2008
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Latest PECL Releases:memcache 3.0.1memcache 2.2.3svn 0.3imagick 2.1.0bbcode 1.0.0
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Latest PEAR Releases:Net_LDAP 1.1.0a1Date_Holidays 0.17.3Date_Holidays 0.17.4HTML_CSS 1.5.0Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_HTMLTable 0.1.5PEAR_Info 1.7.1Console_CommandLine 1.0.0RC1Crypt_GPG 0.3.11Log 1.9.15Log 1.9.16PEAR_Frontend_Web 0.7.2Net_LDAP 1.1.0a2
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Latest PEAR Releases:File_Cabinet 0.1.0Validate_IE 1.0.0Net_SMTP 1.2.11pearweb_phars 1.4.1PHP_CompatInfo 1.6.0PHP_CompatInfo 1.6.1VFS 0.2.0Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_Array 0.1.4Services_OpenSearch 0.2.0
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:Simple CURL WrapperMoney CurrencyDraw SudokuPlay List ImportercPanel APIDate Drop Down List GeneratorBig Number CalculatorRSS ErrorSession in CookiesPHP MS WordOverall Tag ViewGoogle Calendar WrapperGraidleAJAXed list boxes
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Pierre-Alain Joye takes a look at building Cairo (a vector-based graphics library for PHP) on a Windows system.    While trying to get the cairo (and pimp) PHP binding ready to be released, I finally sit down and port Wez build cscript to cairo. It still needs some cleanup, a nice summary message but it works already. I tested it with Visual C++ Express Edition but it should work with other versions as well.   My next goal is to add the tests (nmake tests) and fix the nmake instal    He describes the process he went through to try to get things up and running, but is still having a few issues and has required a few tweaks to get it working. He also links to two resources: a ZIP of the development libraries and a ZIP ready to use package.
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Latest PEAR Releases:HTTP_Session 0.5.6PEAR_Info 1.7.0PEAR_PackageFileManager_Cli 0.3.0Math_Fraction 0.4.1QA_Peardoc_Coverage 1.1.0PHP_DocBlockGenerator 1.0.2
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According to this note from Christian Stocker on the BitFlux blog, the upload progress meter (using the new file upload hooks introduced in recent PHP versions) has finally been included, officially, into PECL.   After some tweaking, code improvements and remote code execution vulnerability fixes, I finally put the uploadprogress extension into PECL.   Windows users might be out of luck for a while though, since Christian's not pursuing binaries for the package. However, the source is there, and anyone is more than welcome to try...
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In a new post on her blog today, Elizabeth Smith talks about her "PECL Windows nut project" of wanting to get every single PECL extension she can get her hands on to compile under Windows.   Now there will be some that are just frankly impossible (but there are some extensions that are impossible on *nix as well - you're not going to see me messing with xmms) What does this mean? Playing with lots of open source libraries, fixing simple errors, creating config.w32 files for extensions. Basically just looking at what is broken and fixing it.   She's already started on the project, fixing several of the base extensions and moving on to try to correct one to five extensions a day. These changes are getting committed into CVS so anyone can get at them and try them out for themselves. She's also trying to get them over into the PECL4WIN packages to make things more "official".
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Mike Wallner has thrown together some stats for the latest edition of the pecl/http package to test its response performance.   The results surprised me, because it clearly shows that the performance drop for starting the PHP engine and doing the neccessary negotiation to provide caching is not that bad.   There's a chart of the results as well as a full PDF with all of the stats the graph maps out. He includes the legend to make the graph easier to understand.
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Latest PEAR Releases:Log 1.9.10Net_LDAP 0.7.0PHP_Archive 0.10.0DB_Table 1.5.0RC1Math_BigInteger 1.0.0RC3DB 1.7.9pearweb 1.2.4PHP_Beautifier 0.1.12pearweb 1.2.5pearweb 1.3.0pearweb_phars 1.0.0pearweb_phars 0.1.0PHP_CompatInfo 1.4.1
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Christian Stocker has an update on his blog today that Windows users will be happy to hear:   Frank Kromann applied some patches yesterday to the PECL sources of the uploadprogress extension to make it compile under Windows (almost the same as by SteveH provided in a comment of my post yesterday). Therefore, thanks to the pecl4win site, a compiled dll is now already available. Get it here (untested by me..)   He also mentions some documentation that was asked about concerning the package (and the patches), but notes that he "can't promise anything any time soon".
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Latest PECL Releases:mailparse 2.1.3memcache 2.2.2ocal 1.0.0perforce 1.0.0RCimagick 2.1.0RC3SPL_Types 0.3.0
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:PHPThreaderVery Simple CaptchaPHP ThreaderMultiCurl class libraryPersistenciaOfile classSecurity_TokenPHP poppassd clientTree AJAXClass Treeview
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Jikes is a great compiler but they could really benefit from better project management.  This bug  has been open for greater than 3 years now with no resolution.  One of the developers sent me a *private* email (without commenting or closing the bug) this this could be fixed by avoiding the use of symlinks but wasn't sure. Of course this email was sent more than 2 years ago so I have no decent way of finding it.  Adding insult to injury is the fact that IBM won't let me comment on the bug without an account.  The only problem is that my account won't activate.  In a nutshell if you want to use incremental compile with jikes you need to specify relative paths not full paths.  For example if y ...
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We are proud to announce the release of version 0.9 or LeafRSS! This version includes full smarty template integration, as well as options to embed the articles in another web page, or even to allow the output of the filter as an RSS feed.   A patch file has been included to upgrade from version 0.8 to avoid any loss of data. Please see the PATCH file for details.  This will be the final major release before we release our first stable version.  If you have any questions or discover any bugs in this version, please post them either in the Help section of our sourceforge forums or in our sourceforge bug tracker. We would appreciate any input you could give us to help us test this release in preparation for moving this project to stable status.  More detail is available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/leafrss
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roundup Plus: Linux release features Windows support...Gmail delivered to desktops...Chinadotcom mobile services suspended...Maker of disposable RFID tags gets millions...Mitsubishi expands solar production.
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Travis Swicegood is teasing us with some output from a script in his latest blog post:   So my free time of late (what there is of it) has been spent on a project that's getting really close to v0.1 release. In other words, its first functional release. If you've ever run a test using the PEAR installer or know what a .phpt file looks like, you might be able to guess what I've been up.   Keep an eye on his blog for more information on his "secret project".