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<p><i><small>by Alan Knowles(alan_k@xxxxxxx)</small></i></p>

<p>Wolframs Kriesing posted note about thanking all PEAR contributors for
their work, helping him to develop his project quickly and easily, due to
the high quality of PEAR's code base. This is where PEAR, shows it's strengths
by offering a consistent Quality, and a flexible 'pick and choose' attitude,
Developers lives are simplified, and Projects using it are easier to manage
an maintain. It was another busy week on the mailing list, with discussions
on Virtual File Systems, Plans for pear.php.net (along with getting ready
for PEAR's official release with PHP 4.3). The DBA package being broken apart,
and more Fruits in PEAR. This week saw ... new releases, and Two more package
proposals, Along with continuing discussion of last weeks issues.<br>
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<h2>New Releases</h2>

<h3>Stable</h3>

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<li><b>..</b> -..</li>

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<h3>Beta</h3>

<ul>
<li><b>..</b> -...</li>

</ul>

<h3>Development</h3>

<ul>
<li><b>..</b> - ...</li>
</ul>

<hr>
<h2>PEAR-DEV traffic</h2>

<h3>Virtual File Systems</h3>
Jon Wood, announced his intention to develop a Virtual File System Package
(VFS), this lead to an interesting discussion of using the Horde VFS
implementation.
To this end, Chuck Hagenbuch of Horde packaged up Horde_VFS into a Pear package
and made it available. However, the idea of implementing a Object Focused
API to a VFS still remains open, and ideas about how to reuse the existing
Horde_VFS code, and provide a Object based API are being explored on pear-dev.

<h3>Last Weeks Weekly News</h3>
Many thanks to Pierre-Alain Joye, for last weeks Pear weekly news, which
he stood in for me (as I was busy testing PHP on vending machines), It was
a refreshing read from a different viewpoint on the goings on in PEAR. And
may be a future direction of the newsletter to have different authors give
you a new perspective more often.

<h3>Plans for pear.php.net</h3>
Martin Jansen posted his plans for Pear.php.net, including a more advanced
Package proposal system, to try and alleviate some of the issues of Proposals
getting lost in the daily traffic and making the process more transparent.
Along with this he is hoping to provide a more detailed developer's summary
page, listing open bugs, feature requests and more.There followed a lively
discussion on the merits of things like 'top ten' bug fixers, which was taken
off php-dev, mainly due to the fact that fixing bugs was not something that
should be motivated by becoming a 'top fixer', rather bugs where better
addressed
in a more considered manner.

<h3>PEAR::Error Summary</h3>
Sebastian Bergmann posted a question about using the PEAR error facilities,
something that is core to the PEAR packages. Brent Cook provided a <a

href="http://lists.php.net/article.php?group=php.pear.dev&article=9462";>good
summary</a> of the usage of PEAR:error, and noted that PEAR::error features
had not really been expanded, as they will probably undergo a major overhaul
when PHP5 is released (which features throw and catch for error handling).

<h3>DBA being broken into components - SQL_Parser, DBA_Relational and classic
DBA.</h3>
Brent Cook announced that he was breaking DBA package into three separate
ones, SQL_Parser, a package that can parse and read SQL statements,
DBA_Relational
for providing SQL relation database features on top of DBA databases, and the
basic DBA package which offers a single API to work with DB2,GDBM, and file
based key,value databases.

<h3>PHPUnit the test suite, branched for Zend Engine 2 (PHP5)</h3>
Sebastian Bergmann announced he had created a branch of PHPUnit, for the
Zend Engine 2 (aka PHP4), the new branch features testing of namespaces,
the new pass by reference and real private members.

<h3>Bananas in PEAR?</h3>
It's been a busy week for Sebastian, he was also asking about putting <a
href="http://www.vl-srm.net";>SRM</a> (an PHP Application Server), packages
into PEAR, as SRM classes are referred to as Banana's, after some discussion,
a base class, 'Banana' was decided on, so there will now be Banana's in the
Fruitiest Library around..

<h3>Bugs and Fixes</h3>
Thanks to these people for spotting bugs and sending fixes: Paweł
Gołaszewski,
Michael Kefeder, Michael Fork, phpsurf, Francisco Benza.

<hr>
<h2>New and Proposed Packages</h2>

<h3>Net_Dict, for querying Dictionary Servers</h3>
Chandrashekar Bhosle proposed a Package to do Dictionary lookups using the
DICT Protocol, this was added to CVS this week, and looks like it will grow
to encapsulate some of the work that Jesus Castagnetto has already done on
a similar Class.

<h3>XSLT, a wrapper class for the PHP XML Stylesheet Tools</h3>
Pierre-Alain Joye announced a wrapper to XLST (XML templating and stylesheet
markup standard) , which provides a single API to support the multiple
XLST backends available in PHP, (like domxsl, libxslt and msxml4).

<hr>

<h2>Development</h2>
Active on CVS this week has been Auth, Benchmark, Cache_Lite, DB,
DB_DataObject, DBA, DBA_Relational, HTML_Common, HTML_Quickform, Image_GraphViz,
Image_Transform, Inline_C, Log, Mail_Queue, MDB, Net_Dict, Net_DNS, PECL:apd,
PECL:bcompiler, PECL:mailparse, PECL:smbd, PECL:spread, Perm_LiveUser, PHPUnit,
SQL_Parser, XML_Transformer.

<h3>New and updated documentation</h3>
PHPdoc2 will be uploaded to a new directory on the CVS server this week,
allowing porting of old documentation to the new Standard.
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