PEAR Stable Finally Released

joestump98 writes "PEAR, the CPAN equivelent for PHP, has finally been released as stable on UNIX platforms (not including Darwin). Combined with the release of PHP 4.3 this should help make PHP a more robust language."

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Windows PHP and PEAR

[McCarrum]

I nabbed a copy as soon as I could, but the Windows tarball didn't have PEAR bundled with it like the earlier versions. I spent a good half a day trying to grab it with zero success.

4.2.3's version's PEAR, whilst not 1.0, still worked very nicely (under 4.3.0) with the test code I've been working on. Wonder if this was an oversight or if there's a real reason for it ... (cue paranoid music)

Is this at all useful?

[XO]

Every time I install a new ver of PHP (which, admittedly, lately, hasn't been all that much, since shortly after the big security bug was fixed), I've looked at PEAR, and I've always wondered "what good is this?". It looks like it's a whole large collection of code that gives PHP3 the functions that are in PHP4. Maybe I missed something, but it just doesn't appear terribly useful for anything.