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Show Information about your PEAR install and its packages

This package is unmaintained.

Download latest release 1.9.2 (archived versions might be outdated)

License: PHP License 3.01

Description

This package generates a comprehensive information page for your current PEAR install.
* The format for the page is similar to that for phpinfo() except using PEAR colors.
* Has complete PEAR Credits (based on the packages you have installed).
* Will show if there is a newer version than the one presently installed (and what its state is)
* Each package has an anchor in the form pkg_PackageName - where PackageName is a case-sensitive PEAR package name

Documentation

Manual

Maintainers

• Davey Shafik (Davey) — lead, inactive
• Florian Anderiasch (fa) — lead, active
• Laurent Laville (farell) — lead, active

Dependencies

Required

• PHP (>= 4.3.10)
• PEAR Installer (>= 1.5.4)
• Console_Getargs (>= 1.3.3)
• pcre (extension)

Optional

• PHPUnit (pear.phpunit.de, >= 3.1.4)

Releases

• 1.9.2 (stable, 2009-02-19)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  * changes
  - fix encoding character in credits page for Sérgio Carvalho and Stig Sæther Bakken
  - improve render and display index only when there are packages (in main page)
  - add a counter of installed packages for each channel (in main page)
  - improve render and did not display maintainers empty list (in credits page)

• 1.9.1 (stable, 2009-01-09)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  * bugs
  - additional fixed for CLI output about request #14543

  * QA
  - add more unit tests to improve code coverage from 61 to 82%

• 1.9.0 (stable, 2008-10-19)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  * news
  - implement request #13741 : show list if potential config files
  see my comment of 2008-10-12 15:58 UTC for more details and usage examples

  - implement request #14543 : Beautify output with some additional links

• 1.8.0 (stable, 2008-04-18)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  Introduce the CLI part:
  a phpinfo() text clone like, but for PEAR info.

  * news
  - implement request #13401 : outputs plain text in CLI mode

  Changes since version 1.8.0a2 (2008-03-28)

  - none

  Changes since version 1.8.0a1 (2008-03-23)

  - CLI print PEAR_Info package version (-V | --version) without help usage
  - fix wrong location of shell script pearinfo on all platforms

• 1.8.0a2 (alpha, 2008-03-28)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  IMPORTANT NOTE
  Even if this version is mark as alpha, I consider API as stable. There are no change
  on Web SAPI.
  Introduce the CLI part: a phpinfo() text clone like, but for PEAR info.

  Final and stable release is planned for April 18, 2008 with same features. Unless
  a bug is found or a change is asked by users-end.

  * news
  - implement request #13401 : outputs plain text in CLI mode

  Changes since version 1.8.0a1 (2008-03-23)

  - CLI print PEAR_Info package version (-V | --version) without help usage
  - fix wrong location of shell script pearinfo on all platforms

• 1.8.0a1 (alpha, 2008-03-23)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  IMPORTANT NOTE
  Even if this version is mark as alpha, I consider API as stable. There are no change
  on Web SAPI.
  Introduce the CLI part: a phpinfo() text clone like, but for PEAR info.

  Final and stable release is planned for April 18, 2008 with same features. Unless
  a bug is found or a change is asked by users-end.

  * news
  - implement request #13401 : outputs plain text in CLI mode

• 1.7.1 (stable, 2008-01-17)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  * changes
  - license upgrades from PHP 3.0 to PHP 3.01
  - removed test/OutputTestCase.php (new feature include since PHPUnit 3.1.4
  see http://www.phpunit.de/ticket/157)

  * bugs
  - fixed bug #12576: clarify license on temporary unit test code

  * QA
  - API is now fully PHPUnit 3 tested
  - Full API is documented into PEAR Manual
  - PEAR installer minimum set to 1.5.4 (to avoid security vulnerability)
  - add optional dependency to PHPUnit 3.1.4 (minimum)
  Unit Tests suite used now .phpt format to solve problem of user/system file config
  modification (and restore in case of a crash: suggestion given by Christian Weiske)

• 1.7.0 (stable, 2007-07-17)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  * changes since RC3
  - class is fully tested with PHPUnit 3
  - removed trigger_error, but not replaced by PEAR_Error (as suggested).
  Will output the error at display() method call.
  - docs and website teams are empty and will not be display on credits page.
  - definitively removed support of PEAR 1.3.x

• 1.7.0RC3 (beta, 2007-07-10)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  * changes
  - Credits page is now customizable with PEAR_INFO_CREDITS_* constant
  - You may have a standalone html page (default behavior) with PEAR_INFO_FULLPAGE
  or just part of html code related to information wanted ; Easy to include in your own pages
  - new method that give PEAR members list (president, group, docs, website)

  Stable release 1.7.0 is scheduled for July 17. This is the last release candidate.

• 1.7.0RC2 (beta, 2007-07-02)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  * changes
  - "channels" key option not defined give only the pear.php.net channel information
  - "channels" key option with a list give only this list of channels
  - "channels" key option with an empty array give all channels information
  (see new example pear_info6.php)

  * bugs
  - fixed bug #11489 - Configuration file warning

• 1.7.0RC1 (beta, 2007-07-01)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  * news
  - Full compatibility with PEAR 1.3.x, PEAR 1.4.x, PEAR 1.5.x
  - Easy change look and feel with a simple CSS file
  - Show packages dependencies list
  - HTML page output is XHTML compliant
  - Introduce a full and flexible configuration system to show only information you want

  Only for PEAR 1.4.x or better :
  - Show channel list
  - Show maintainer inactive status in Credits page
  - Support REST 1.0 protocol

  * changes
  - drop support of package xml 1.0
  (PEAR 1.3.x are encourage to upgrade to PEAR 1.4.x or better)
  - Minimum PEAR version required is now 1.4.11
  - Minimum PHP version is now set to 4.3.0 (due to usage of file_get_contents function)

  * bugs
  - fixed bug #6050 - PEAR version displayed as Array instead of version number
  - fixed bug #8165 - Error on code
  - fixed req #7741 - new feature and pear 1.4.x full compatible
  - fixed req #10815 - Quick list of packages

• 1.6.1 (stable, 2006-03-09)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  Mainly bugfixes and a bit of polishing.

• 1.6.0 (stable, 2005-01-03)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  Added a static method, PEAR_Info::packageInstalled(). Allows you to check if a package is installed, and at least of X.Y.Z version.

• 1.0.2 (stable, 2003-04-25)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  PEAR_Info 1.0.1 accidently included PEAR_Info 1.0 source, this release just puts the correct version in the package

• 1.0.1 (stable, 2003-04-24)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License

  Moved output of the PEAR_Info to PEAR_Info::show to allow for extensibility for different (CLI at least) output in the future

Bugs