Greg announced that PEAR 1.4 is getting more stability, since the latest version 1.4.6 released in January several improbably rare issues have been discovered and fixed in PEAR.
I’m happy to report that the PEAR 1.4.x branch is finally settling in. All of the issues reported since the release of PEAR 1.4.6 have been rare edge cases that won’t affect the greater majority of users. I give the unit test suite that I’ve been slaving over full credit for this accomplishment, as it has caught several re-introduced problems when fixing newly discovered bugs. If you aren’t unit-testing, you are wasting your future time, not to mention your end-users’ time!
This is a great news for the PEAR community, the next release will came with a new feature also which is the integration of PHPUnit tests into PEAR. If you provide an AllTests.php file in the top-level of your tests directory, you can run the tests after installing via: pear run-tests -p Packagename. The next version 1.4.7 is expected to be released in the next weeks when everything is ready to go.
