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alan_k          Sat Sep 28 04:19:06 2002 EDT

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+++ pearweb/weeklynews/20020929.en.html Sat Sep 28 04:19:05 2002
@@ -15,9 +15,8 @@
 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>
-</p>
+and more Fruits in PEAR. This week saw 4 stable and 3 Beta releases, along
+with 2 more package proposals.</p>
     
 <hr>  
 <h2>New Releases</h2>
@@ -25,22 +24,24 @@
 <h3>Stable</h3>
     
 <ul>
-  <li><b>..</b> -..</li>
-  
+  <li><b>Image_GraphViz</b>&nbsp; - A library to work with AT&amp;T's GraphViz
+tools (A graphing and visualization library)</li>
+  <li><b>Benchmark</b>&nbsp; - a framework to benchmark PHP scripts and 
functions.</li>
+  <li><b>PHPUnit</b>&nbsp; - a regression testing library to test the 
applications
+so methods and output produces expected return values</li>
+  <li><b>XML_Transformer</b>&nbsp; - a Library to which enables you to bind
+php functions to XML tags.</li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Beta</h3>
     
 <ul>
-  <li><b>..</b>  -...</li>
-  
+  <li><b>DBA</b>&nbsp;  - A wrapper class for the DBA php functions, including
+a file based DBA emulator</li>
+  <li><b>Net_Dict</b>&nbsp; - a library to query Internet Dictionary 
Servers</li>
+  <li><b>Mail_Queue</b>&nbsp; - a library to queue up the delivery of a large
+number of emails. </li>
 </ul>
-     
-<h3>Development</h3>
-    
-<ul>
-  <li><b>..</b> - ...</li>
-</ul>
-    
+         
 <hr>  
 <h2>PEAR-DEV traffic</h2>
     
@@ -51,14 +52,12 @@
 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. 
-
+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
@@ -68,8 +67,7 @@
 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.
-
+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
@@ -77,31 +75,26 @@
 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.
-
+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.
-
+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.. 
-
+Fruitiest Library around..  
 <h3>Bugs and Fixes</h3>
   Thanks to these people for spotting bugs and sending fixes: Pawe&#322; 
Go&#322;aszewski,
-Michael Kefeder, Michael Fork, phpsurf, Francisco Benza. 
-
+Michael Kefeder, Michael Fork, phpsurf, Francisco Benza.  
 <hr>   
 <h2>New and Proposed Packages</h2>
     
@@ -109,25 +102,20 @@
 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.
-
+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>   
-
+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.
-   
+  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.
+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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