Re: [PEAR] Questions about PEAR & Composer

Hi again,


> After that, you could host your own channel but seldom anyone did that
> because there was no simple channel server software.
> The Chiara PEAR server appeared in 2006 and was the first of its kind,
> but needed a database and many dependencies.
> SimpleChannelServer came in 2007 and was PHP 5.3 only - which at the
> time was not under construction - so it could only be used from 2009
> by normal people.
> Pirum then came in 2011 and was the only one to gain widely
> attraction.

The PEAR channel server file structure and XML format was undocumented
until 2008[1], which may be why nobody wrote channel server software
before.

[1]
http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/peardoc/trunk/en/core/rest.xml?view=log

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Christian Weiske

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