On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Christoph Dorn <[email protected]> wrote: >> There's a lot of interesting things going on with Pyrus (the next >> version of the PEAR installer) and Helgi and I will be coordinating a >> Pyrus hacking session at |Tek. We'd be happy to answer any questions >> in person, and welcome anyone interested in participating. > > > Unfortunately I will not be able to make it to the conference. Maybe we can > address a few questions now: > > - What is the planned transition timeline from the existing PEAR installer > to Pyrus?
Both will run in tandem for quite a while. There are no plans to move away from one to another. > - I am assuming Pyrus is PHP 5.3 + only? Yes. > - Is there a feature list for Pyrus somewhere? The roadmap is available on the PEAR website. http://pear.php.net/bugs/roadmap.php?package=PEAR Most of the new features have been implemented, but there are a few that aren't in the bug tracker, and some that haven't been implemented yet. The main objectives were to create a clean api for the installer using the latest features in PHP, allow registries to be moved/distributed, and remove the installation step required for the installer. There are others of course, but those are the major ones that come to mind. -- Brett Bieber
