Two great news for the PEAR community, now the PEAR project got an official blog available at blog.pear.php.net. The blog will be used for announcements, sharing ideas with the community, and general information about the PEAR project. The second good news is that PEAR Installer 1.6.0 have been released with some bugfixes and improvements including :
- minor improvements to the output of list-all, list, list-upgrades, search. Channel is displayed for many of these commands by default, and with an optional switch for the others
- implementation of code coverage reports using xdebug for .phpt-based tests with the pear run-tests command. This is somewhat experimental, and bug reports are expected on this new feature, but problems found will be fixed in 1.6.1
Greg previously announced Pyrus, the next generation of PEAR installer which is currently available in the PEAR2 CVS.
