| PEAR Announce 2006-02-27, 7:00 pm |
| The new PEAR package PEAR-1.4.7 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.
Release notes
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Minor bugfix release
* Prevent packaging of release candidate releases with versions like 1.0.0rc1
version_compare() only understands upper-case 1.0.0RC1
* implement CLEAN section in .phpt tests
* implement run-tests command for phpunit-based tests
* implement Request #6039: setFrontendObject needed to allow objects passed
* fix Bug #6075: unnecessary validation of maintainers can break PEAR_PFM
* fix Bug #6076: optional is not set for conversion of package2.xml to "has" rel
* fix Bug #6077: PEAR_PackageFile_Parser_v2 should return by reference
* fix Bug #6273: pear download-all fails
* fix Bug #6383: incomplete PEAR::Error message on addReplacement()
* fix Bug #6445: PEAR::registerShutdownFunc doesn't work in static calls
* fix Bug #6480: pear install --installroot option fails for pecl packages [timj]
* fix Bug #6510: status active of a maintainer cannot be change
* fix Bug #6537: wrong export compatible v1 dependencies list with exclude limit
* fix Bug #6559: pear should ignore safemode/open_basedir
* fix Bug #6576: PFM2 run in trouble with sessions
* fix Bug #6579: PFM2 changelog and license with uri
* fix Bug #6673: pear install --offline --packagingroot=/blah does not work
* fix Bug #6674: --packagingroot always uses channel pear.php.net configuration
* fix Bug #6675: postinstallscript validation fails
* fix Bug #6690: channel with / will not allow upgrade
* fix Bug #6692: Optional feature install message needs channel name
* fix Bug #6716: "pear install -r" errors after install when
attempting "pear list <pkgname>"
* fix Bug #6735: PEAR_PackageFile::fromTgzFile doesn't work with package.xml
not in root dir
Package Info
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The PEAR package contains:
* the PEAR installer, for creating, distributing
and installing packages
* the beta-quality PEAR_Exception PHP5 error handling mechanism
* the beta-quality PEAR_ErrorStack advanced error handling mechanism
* the PEAR_Error error handling mechanism
* the OS_Guess class for retrieving info about the OS
where PHP is running on
* the System class for quick handling of common operations
with files and directories
* the PEAR base class
New features in a nutshell:
* full support for channels
* pre-download dependency validation
* new package.xml 2.0 format allows tremendous flexibility while maintaining BC
* support for optional dependency groups and limited support for sub-packaging
* robust dependency support
* full dependency validation on uninstall
* remote install for hosts with only ftp access - no more problems with
restricted host installation
* full support for mirroring
* support for bundling several packages into a single tarball
* support for static dependencies on a url-based package
* support for custom file roles and installation tasks
NOTE: users of PEAR_Frontend_Web/PEAR_Frontend_Gtk must upgrade their installations
to the latest version, or PEAR will not upgrade properly
Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR/download/1.4.7
Download: http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.4.7.tgz
Authors
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Stig Bakken <stig@php.net> (lead)
Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> (lead)
Martin Jansen <mj@php.net> (helper)
Pierre-Alain Joye (lead)
Greg Beaver (lead)
bertrand Gugger <bertrand@toggg.com> (helper)
Tim Jackson (helper)
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