| PEAR Announce 2006-03-29, 7:00 pm |
| The new PEAR package PEAR-1.4.9 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.
Release notes
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CRITICAL BUGFIX RELEASE
users upgrading from PEAR 1.3.x cannot upgrade to 1.4.8
users who use --packagingroot may find that installation fails
* fix Bug #7093: if pear channel does not exist, it cannot be retrieved
* fix Bug #7165: warnings in pear
* fix Bug #7075: PEAR_PackageFile_v2 :: setLogger failed on autodetection
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/1.4.9
Download: http://pear.php.net/get/PEAR-1.4.9.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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