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List:       pear-dev
Subject:    Re: [PEAR-DEV] pear list-packages and more
From:       "Tomas V.V.Cox" <cox () idecnet ! com>
Date:       2001-10-29 2:18:00
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Cool work Stig!

Time to test it :-)


Tomas V.V.Cox

"Stig S. Bakken" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The first pear sub-command communicating through xmlrpc with the
> backend is implemented.  Also, there's a simple configuration
> interface that lets you read and write configuration values from a
> system-wide file (for example /etc/pear.conf) and a per-user file (for
> example ~/.pearrc).  Configuration data is stored as a serialized PHP
> array right now.
> 
> How to test the new stuff:
> 
> pear -d master_server=your.dev.box -s
> 
> This is _supposed to_ store your configuration in ~/.pearrc (I haven't
> had time to test everything thoroughly yet).
> 
> To update the system defaults (set the system-defined master server to
> pear.php.net):
> 
> pear -D master_server=pear.php.net -S
> 
> Also you can speficy an alternate config file with -c:
> 
> pear -c ~someotheruser/.pearrc list-packages
> 
> As you may have noticed, the uppercase options are for the system-wide
> stuff, while the lowercase options are for the per-user stuff.  The
> old -d, -p, -e and -v options have been removed, use "-d foo=bar"
> instead (-d is doc_dir -p is php_dir -e is ext_dir and -v is
> verbose).  These options can be set in the system and user config
> files too.
> 
> Finally, there's a mechanism to call "any" xmlrpc method in the pear
> script now: the PEAR_Remote class.  Here's how to use it:
> 
> $config = new PEAR_Config;
> $remote = new PEAR_Remote($config);
> $result = $remote->call("package.add", $my_package_data);
> 
> This is actually equivalent with running this code on the server:
> 
> $result = package::add($my_package_data);
> 
> The rest is taken care of by the xmlrpc layer.  There's just one thing
> you need to be aware of, and that is if you are passing date or binary
> data parameters to PEAR_Remote::call, then you need to use
> xmlrpc_settype on those fields first.  Shouldn't affect much though.
> 
>  - Stig
> 
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