I admit I know nothing about pear. I have checked how PLD is doing it, and their list is about 180 php-pear-* packages. Is this the way to do it?
I started a php script some time ago (last chrismas ?)to build a mandrake rpm from a pear package name (quite simple as a package is well described, with dependencies, test files, ...).
That would generate a lot of packages so they couldn't be tested manually, so the script would have to automaticallay run the test programs. This could be done quite easily as pear has a command run-tests to run the regression tests.
I didn't finish because not many people looked interested.
The point is to decide if this is usefull as pear already has commands to install/update packages.
