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Saturday, October 8. 2005

Release of Chiara_PEAR_Server 0.18.2 and PEAR 1.4.2

Recently, Chiara_PEAR_Server 0.18.2 was released. The official release announcement was delayed until PEAR 1.4.2 was available, as Chiara_PEAR_Server depends on PEAR 1.4.2

Chiara_PEAR_Server 0.18.2 fixes some egregious bugs in the post-install script, and adds per-channel information to maintainers. In addition, bugs in the server administrative backend relating to releasing packages have been fixed. This is a recommended upgrade for all users of Chiara_PEAR_Server or the deprecated PEAR_Server.

Chiara_PEAR_Server implements a REST-based PEAR channel server that provides a great deal more customization than an old XML-RPC-based channel server. In particular, indexing on sites like pearified.com and pearadise.net is now possible.

We have welcomed new developer Clay Loveless of Killersoft as a co-lead along with myself and Davey Shafik. Thanks to all who contributed ideas, testing, and of course actual code.

Keep an eye out for version 0.19.0, this will have some killer new features...

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Well-done all around, then. Looking forward to upgrading.

#1 Paul M. Jones (Homepage) on 2005-10-08 17:41 (Reply)

When i try to upload a release I get Error: Saving release failed. I have validated the package.xml and i get 0 error and warnings.

#2 MySchizoBuddy (Homepage) on 2005-10-09 08:03 (Reply)

This is a very unhelpful error message. In fact, error messages is one area of Chiara_PEAR_Server needs a bit more loving, so be sure that this will be on the list to do for 0.19.0.

I can help by letting you know that this is most likely caused by one of three things:

1) permissions are wrong on the temporary release saving directory (must be world-writeable, and this is best kept outside htdocs)
2) permissions on htdocs/get must be writeable by apache, or releases can't be copied from the temporary directory to the final directory
3) the database is not set up properly, and saving the release information is failling

I suspect #3 is the most likely cause, so go in with phpMyAdmin and verify that everything looks right. You can find the expected table definitions in pearserver.sql, found in a subdirectory of [data-dir]/Chiara_PEAR_Server/data/ on any installation.

#2.1 Greg Beaver (Homepage) on 2005-10-09 09:01 (Reply)

Ahh my bad.
I didn't realize that I have to create a package and then upload a release. I thought uploading a release will automatically create the package information by reading the package.xml file.

I guess the error message should be
Error: Corresponding Package information doesn't exist. Either the name tag in the package.xml is wrong or the package was never created.

something for 0.19 version
Its good to have an idiot on ur side.

Is there a wishlist for the 0.19 available. I want subcategory feature.

#3 MySchizoBuddy (Homepage) on 2005-10-09 22:19 (Reply)

Your wish has already been granted

Davey has been hard at work on some very slick new features for Chiara_PEAR_Server 0.19.0, and sub-categories is one of those to be or already implemented.

We are slowly trying to get things running the way they should at pear.chiaraquartet.net

#3.1 Greg Beaver (Homepage) on 2005-10-10 07:41 (Reply)

Oh sweet.

what about attaching images to packages small 150 X 150 pixel images. It will be perfect to showcase templates.

Why would u use pear for templates u say?
Why not?

#3.1.1 MySchizoBuddy (Homepage) on 2005-10-10 07:52 (Reply)

OK I mentioned about Spartacus as pear channel using Chiara and Crtx, along with screenshots on S9Y's forum
the link is
http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3049

I'll appreciate if u can read and reply to the thread.

#4 MySchizoBuddy (Homepage) on 2005-10-09 23:41 (Reply)

The best way to implement this would be as a plugin to Chiara_PEAR_Server that would allow attaching an image to the package. This would then be saved in the REST directories, and added to channel.xml as something like:

Then, serendipity would have a PEAR-based installer internally that would know to look for the image and display it if it exists. It's quite simple and elegant to do this.

It would involve writing a compact customized PEAR installer for serendipity, but this actually is not too difficult to do. It's never been done, but I've been keeping an eye to this possibility all along when writing PEAR 1.4.

#4.1 Greg Beaver (Homepage) on 2005-10-10 08:04 (Reply)

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