PEAR2 & Pyrus - The look ahead

PEAR2 & Pyrus, The Look Ahead

Head of R&D at echolibre , pear extraordinaire, author and from Iceland Head of R&D at echolibre , pear extraordinaire, published author and an Icelander Who is Helgi ? Head of R&D at echolibre , pear extraordinaire, author and from Iceland

What is PEAR today
Structured library
Distribution system
Standards
Community

PEAR - New things
PEAR Group elected by developers
Mirrors
More QA (Test coverage, Doc coverage)
Documentation

PEAR - Problems
Documentation
High bus factor
Attracting new people
Image issues

PEAR2 Dissected

What is PEAR2
Concept overhaul of PEAR
PHP 5.3+
New Installer

New proposal process
New packages go into the Sandbox
Channel for stable packages only
Sandbox to main channel at beta

From sandbox to production
Complete-sih documentation
50%+ code coverage in unit tests
API approved by other developers
Final package name

Documentation with PhD
Uses the new awesome PhD
Still Docbook
Easy to setup
Integration of full books possible (TDG)

Documentation with PhD The PEAR manual is built in 5 minutes, not hours !

Exceptions
No base exception to extend from
SPL exceptions encouraged

Include / Require Once
Not allowed !
Users given the choice

Include / Require Once
PEAR2 Autoload
allfiles.php – Includes everything
Include files that are highly tweaked

Unzip and go
Classical unzip just works
Extracted packages can be upgraded

Namespaces
Will be used in PEAR2

Namespaces Namespace PEAR2; class MyClass {} Namespace PEAR2HTTP; class Request {} Class: PEAR2HTTPRequest Package Name: PEAR2_HTTP_Request

PEAR Pyrus Pyrus_Developer

The new installer
Easier to use
No installation of the installer just grab phar
Capable of packaging entire apps in phars
Can manage multiple installed PEAR trees

The new installer
Custom tree can use deps from the system
Easy packaging when using PEAR2 svn layout
More security

The new installer
Smaller
Faster
More robust
Better handling of PECL
Easy to embed in your app

Status
Waiting for PHP 5.3.1
Finishing touches on pear2.php.net
Almost ready for alpha!
80% Test Coverage

How to use
php pyrus.phar command
php pyrus.phar [directory] command

Pyrus_Developer
generate-pear2
make
package
generate-ext
pickle
build

Handling package xml files
Use the standard directory structure
Package info goes into README
Developer info goes into CREDITS
Release notes go into RELEASE-0.1.0
Run a 20 line package.php
Voila ! Package is created

Simple Channel Server
PEAR Channel info REST server
No dependencies except for pyrus
Builds static XML and package files
No web frontend

Questions? Email: [email_address] Twitter: @h http://joind.in/talk/view/955

PEAR2 & Pyrus - The look ahead

by Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson

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