On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Michal Novotny <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > thanks for the account activation and approval. I've already pushed the > repository to git.php.net however I would like to make a new release and > provide the download. Are there any guidelines how to do it? I can see the > "New Release" form at [1] however it requires some package.xml file in the > tarball or something. Not really clean what archives are supported, > unfortunately I don't see any link to guidelines how to upload/git-generate > a new release. > > Any help would be highly appreciated! > > Thanks, > Michal > > [1] http://pecl.php.net/release-upload.php > > hi, please don't top post and don't forget cc'ing the list as you can happen to get help from some other subscriber or your question and the answer can be useful for somebody else later on. to answer your question: the package.xml is a standard pear configuration file which used for the packaging a pear/pecl package and by the pear server and installer. you can read more about the (2nd version) package.xml in the pear documentation: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.developers.package2.php there are only a handful of differences for pecl packages compared to the pear packages. for creating your package.xml there are a couple of way: you can create manually either from scratch or copying from another package there are also a couple of ways which can help you generate/maintain the package.xml (http://pear.php.net/manual/en/pyrus.commands.make.php http://pear.php.net/manual/en/pyrus.commands.pickle.php http://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.users.dependencytracking.generatingpackagexml.php) when you are done with the package.xml, you should tag your release via 'pecl svntag', then 'pecl package' the release and upload it the release on pecl.php.net I will put together a wiki for this process soon, because it seems to be lacking. ps: watch out to have a recent Archive_Tar package installed, because there was a bug (http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=19289) fixed in version 1.3.9, using previous versions can create corruct releases- -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
