Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 10.29.2007
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Latest PEAR Releases:HTML_CSS 1.3.0HTML_QuickForm2 0.2.0HTML_QuickForm_DHTMLRulesTableless 0.3.3HTML_QuickForm_Renderer_Tableless 0.6.0HTTP_Request 1.4.2pearweb_index 1.16.11QA_Peardoc_Coverage 1.1.1Text_Spell_Audio 0.1.0Services_urlTea 0.1.0Text_Diff 0.3.1MDB2_Driver_sqlite 1.5.0a1MDB2_Driver_pgsql 1.5.0a1MDB2_Driver_oci8 1.5.0a1MDB2_Driver_mysqli 1.5.0a1MDB2_Driver_mysql 1.5.0a1MDB2_Driver_mssql 1.3.0a1MDB2_Driver_ibase 1.5.0a1MDB2 2.5.0a1
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Greg Beaver points out today that the sample chapter [pdf] of the "PEAR Installer Manifesto" has been posted by Packt Publishing.   Packt has put up a sample chapter, Chapter 5 "PEAR Channels: releasing to the world" up at http://www.packtpub.com/files/SampleChapter-The-PEAR-Installer-Manifesto.pdf. Check it out to see what you're missing if you don't already own the book.   The chapter he points to talks about setting up a channel (using Chiara_PEAR_Server) and why they're the "killer features in PEAR 1.4.x+".   You can get the full information on the book from its page on the Packt Publishing website and order it directly or from another retailer.
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Latest PEAR Releases:Text_Wiki_Creole 0.5.1HTML_QuickForm_Renderer_Tableless 0.5.3PHP_Archive 0.11.0pearweb_phars 1.3.1PHP_Archive 0.11.1pearweb_phars 1.3.2Validate_FI 0.3.0Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DBQuery 0.1.10Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_MDB2 0.1.10Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DBTable 0.1.6File 1.3.0Tree 0.3.0pearweb_index 1.0.0RC1pearweb_index 1.16.2pearweb_index 1.16.1pearweb 1.16.0pearweb_index 1.0.0HTML_QuickForm 3.2.8
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Latest PEAR Releases:pearweb_index 1.16.3HTML_QuickForm 3.2.9PEAR_PackageFileManager_Cli 0.1.0HTML_BBCodeParser 1.2.1HTML_BBCodeParser 1.2.0Text_Highlighter 0.7.0PEAR 1.6.0Services_Digg 0.1.1PEAR_PackageFileManager_Cli 0.2.0Validate_IE 0.2.0HTML_QuickForm_advmultiselect 1.4.0pearweb_index 1.16.4Text_Wiki 1.2.0Mail_mimeDecode 1.0.0RC1Mail_Mime 1.5.0RC1Mail_mimeDecode 0.1.0Mail_Mime 1.5.0a1Mail_Mime 1.5.0RC2Date_Holidays 0.17.1
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From the PEAR blog today comes a new post talking about the introduction of a much requested option when accessing the PEAR source code - SVN over CVS.   As part of the PEAR2 project we are making that happen. I'm happy to announce that we now have an SVN repo ready for testing. Web access at http://svn.pear.php.net with the SVN url being http://svn.pear.php.net/repo.   The access isn't quite available yet, but it will be as soon as they figure out how they want people to be able to access the parts of the PEAR2 source code. Keep an eye on the PEAR Blog for the latest.
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Greg Beaver has announced an "official referendum on the future of PEAR" that he has set in motion to get PEAR developers voting on proposals for where PEAR should be going.   As of February 22, 2007, I have called an official referendum on the future of PEAR.  There is a news item on the front page of pear.php.net with the same instructions in this message.  This election is only open to PEAR developers who have contributed to the development of a PEAR package at any time in history, but you must have the ability to log in at pear.php.net, and must have "pear.dev" karma.   There's three options - "don't change anything", Greg's constitution, or Anant Narayanan's constitution. The results will pick the path that PEAR will follow and the future of the project. If you have access and the pear.dev karma, head over here and cast your vote today.
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Latest PEAR Releases:OpenDocument 0.1.2Net_Ping 2.4.2PhpDocumentor 1.4.0RC2DB_DataObject 1.8.6PEAR_Info 1.7.0RC3File_Fortune 1.0.0RC2DB_DataObject 1.8.7pearweb_gopear 1.0.2pearweb_index 1.16.8pearweb_index 1.16.9
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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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On the PEAR blog today, they're asking for thoughts on some of the standards for the coming PEAR2 development environment:   Please read the following document and post your comments on the wiki using the discussion page. Comments are opened for a period of two weeks. It is very important that you comment as these standards will define PEAR2.   The standards can be found here and include everything from the base requirements and package approach down to specific package-related rules (for things like directory structure, class-to-file conventions and handling dependencies).
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New from the PEAR blog today is an announcement about the official released of the latest version of the PEAR installer - 1.6.0.    This release fixes a number of major regressions introduced in PEAR 1.5.2 that were not fixed in PEAR 1.5.3 or PEAR 1.5.4, and is recommended for immediate upgrade.   The march to Pyrus, the next generation installer for PEAR, and the repository of packages designed for Pyrus (PEAR2) continues.  Maintenance on 1.x will continue to contain bug fixes and security fixes, but the pace of new features is going to slow considerably.    PEAR users can either download the latest package from the main PEAR site or just issue a "pear upgrade PEAR" command from their system to pull it down from the default PEAR channel.
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Perl script that automatically searches for new episodes of your favorite TV shows and downloads the corresponding NZB files from various free sources on the internet.   This release is mostly just to update the .shows file and the README.  I was sleepy, and I stupidly said that you do not have to have the  element in your shows file.  Turns out I'm just an idiot, and you do.  I have updated the .shows file to include the proper template for most shows, which is %name%.S%season%E%episode%  Sorry about that!  I also started a code optimization run which will hopefully over time make things run faster and more efficiently.  I just picked off the low hanging fruit on this release, because I wanted to get the updated README out before too many people had problems.
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Latest PEAR Releases:HTML_QuickForm_altselect 1.0.0RC1PEAR_PackageUpdate 0.6.1PHP_Beautifier 0.1.13pearweb 1.4.2Structures_LinkedList 0.1.2pearweb 1.5.0RC1Console_Getopt 1.2.2Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_Flexy 0.1.0HTML_CSS 1.1.3Text_CAPTCHA 0.2.1PHP_CodeSniffer 0.4.0pearweb 1.5.1
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As Greg Beaver mentions in his latest blog entry, the main website for PEAR, pear.php.net has been mirrored as part of an effort to restructure and "revamp" the PEAR wesbite.   I'm excited to announce the first two mirrors of pear.php.net are now actively mirroring the installer REST files and actual .tgz files of package releases.  They are http://us.pear.php.net (provided by Joshua Eichorn and bluga.net) and http://de.pear.php.net (provided by Christian Weiske).  The option exists at a future date of mirroring the entire website, but this will not be possible without further changes to the infrastructure.   Using these servers is only slightly different than the main site, setting the preferred_mirror setting in your configuration to use one of the above.
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Latest PEAR Releases:Mail 1.1.11Mail 1.1.12XML_RSS 0.9.10Mail 1.1.13Structures_Form 0.8.0develStructures_Form_Gtk2 0.8.0develSelenium 0.1.4Services_YouTube 0.1.3Gtk2_ExceptionDump 0.1.0DB_DataObject_FormBuilder 1.0.0RC5HTTP_Session 0.5.3Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_CSV 0.1.2PHP_CodeSniffer 0.0.5
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Latest PEAR Releases:PHP_CompatInfo 1.4.1HTML_Progress2 2.3.0RC1pearweb_phars 1.1.0pearweb 1.4.0Auth 1.5.0HTML_QuickForm_altselect 1.0.0RC1PEAR_PackageUpdate 0.6.1PHP_Beautifier 0.1.13pearweb 1.4.2Structures_LinkedList 0.1.2pearweb 1.5.0RC1Console_Getopt 1.2.2Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_Flexy 0.1.0HTML_CSS 1.1.3Text_CAPTCHA 0.2.1PHP_CodeSniffer 0.4.0
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Scott Mattocks is back with the latest installment of the PHP-GTK news, issue number 22.   It's been a while, but I finally have some time to get back to summing up the world of PHP-GTK. Things have slowed down a little in the past few months on the development side but that doesn't mean that the world of PHP-GTK 2 has stood still.   In this edition, there's a call for help for anyone that would want to join the other (4!) developers in working on the PHP-GTK 2 project as well as some general information about the project and its involvement in the community - from talks at php/db|works, International PHP Conference, and the Zend/PHP Conference to the many PHP-GTK-related articles being printed to a new online resource for PHP-GTK tutorials.
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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