PEAR

PEAR Base System

The PEAR package contains: * the PEAR base class * the PEAR_Error error handling mechanism * the PEAR installer, for creating, distributing and installing packages PHP License ssb lead Stig Sæther Bakken stig@php.net cox developer Tomas V.V.Cox cox@idecnet.com mj helper Martin Jansen mj@php.net 1.0b1 stable 2002-10-12 New Features, Installer: * new command: "pear makerpm" * new command: "pear search" * new command: "pear upgrade-all" * new command: "pear config-help" * new command: "pear sign" * Windows support for "pear build" (requires msdev) * new dependency type: "zend" * XML-RPC results may now be cached (see cache_dir and cache_ttl config) * HTTP proxy authorization support * install/upgrade install-root support Bugfixes, Installer: * fix for XML-RPC bug that made some remote commands fail * fix problems under Windows with DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR * lots of other minor fixes * --force option did not work for "pear install Package" * http downloader used "4.2.1" rather than "PHP/4.2.1" as user agent * bending over a little more to figure out how PHP is installed * "platform" file attribute was not included during "pear package" New Features, PEAR Library: * added PEAR::loadExtension($ext) * added PEAR::delExpect() * System::mkTemp() now cleans up at shutdown * defined PEAR_ZE2 constant (boolean) * added PEAR::throwError() with a simpler API than raiseError() Bugfixes, PEAR Library: * ZE2 compatibility fixes * use getenv() as fallback for $_ENV Archive_Tar Console_Getopt 0.90 beta 2002-05-28 * fix: "help" command was broken * new command: "info" * new command: "config-help" * un-indent multi-line data from xml description files * new command: "build" * fix: config-set did not work with "set" parameters * disable magic_quotes_runtime * "install" now builds and installs C extensions * added PEAR::delExpect() * System class no longer inherits PEAR * grouped PEAR_Config parameters * add --nobuild option to install/upgrade commands * new and more generic Frontend API Archive_Tar Console_Getopt 0.10 beta 2002-05-26 Lots of stuff this time. 0.9 was not actually self-hosting, even though it claimed to be. This version finally is self-hosting (really!), meaning you can upgrade the installer with the command "pear upgrade PEAR". * new config paramers: http_proxy and umask * HTTP proxy support when downloading packages * generalized command handling code * and fixed the bug that would not let commands have the same options as "pear" itself * added long options to every command * added command shortcuts ("pear help shortcuts") * added stub for Gtk installer * some phpdoc fixes * added class dependency detector (using ext/tokenizer) * dependency handling fixes * added OS_Guess class for detecting OS * install files with the "platform" attribute set only on matching operating systems * PEAR_Remote now falls back to the XML_RPC package if xmlrpc-epi is not available * renamed command: package-list -> list * new command: package-dependencies * lots of minor fixes Archive_Tar Console_Getopt 0.9 beta 2002-04-07 First package release. Commands implemented: remote-package-info list-upgrades list-remote-packages download config-show config-get config-set list-installed shell-test install uninstall upgrade package package-list package-info login logout