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PEAR_PackageFileManager_Frontend, the singleton-based frontend for user input/output.

This package is unmaintained.

Download latest release 0.8.0 (archived versions might be outdated)

License: PHP License 3.01

Description

PEAR_PackageFileManager_Frontend is designed to act as a backend with all features required by frontend such as Web or Gtk2.

Features:
- keep and manage all errors/warnings through a PEAR ErrorStack
- allow to import/export users preferences
- logs all frontend activities
- retrieve user package informations on import with common API getDefaults()
- provides also basic methods to get list of maintainers, files with roles and replacements,
list of dependencies (packages, extensions), and specific files roles.
- provides a common Decorator pattern class for any frontend (Web, Gtk2, ...)
- works with PHP 4 and PHP 5.

Maintainers

• Laurent Laville (farell) — lead, active

Dependencies

Required

• PHP (>= 5.0.0)
• PEAR Installer (>= 1.4.3)
• PEAR_PackageFileManager (>= 1.6.0b4)
• Config (>= 1.10.7)

Optional

• Log (>= 1.9.0)
• Var_Dump (>= 1.0.1)

Releases

• 0.8.0 (alpha, 2011-12-17)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  QA release
  Fix directory structure
  Rely only on package 2.0
  PHP 5 as a minimum dependency
  Bug #17772 Patch: Avoiding eregi in favor of PCRE functions

• 0.7.0 (alpha, 2006-08-19)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  * bugs:
  - fixed warning errors when use frontend from scratch

  * news
  - setFileList() method $plugin parameter is no more optional.

  * improvements
  - upgraded dependencies to PEAR_PackageFileManager 1.6.0b4 and Config 1.10.7

• 0.6.0 (alpha, 2006-07-24)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  * bugs:
  - better support of package xml <group> tag especially with package, subpackage, and extension
  - be sure to have a default files list in session
  - If you edit data of an existing package dependencies, this package was converted to extension

  * improvements
  - upgrades dependency to PEAR_PackageFileManager 1.6.0b2
  - fixed some phpdoc tags
  - global var '_PEAR_PACKAGEFILEMANAGER_FRONTEND_SINGLETON' was removed
  to avoid to pollute the global namespace.
  Singleton pattern used a static variable (as it should be since beginning).

  * news
  - implements 'extension', 'replace' and 'role' filters on new Filter Decorator
  - removed page 6 (roles) management
  - introduces new types (group-package, group-subpackage, group-extension)
  to manage group dependencies

• 0.5.0 (alpha, 2006-05-29)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  * bug fixes:
  - Avoid to propagate wrong data content to the other package dependencies.
  - php extension from package dependencies are now detected correctly.
  - be sure to returns good data when getDefaults('dependencies') is called.
  - keep good version of pear installer when import a package 2.0
  - just for a new package from scratch pear installer is set to 1.4.3 minimum due to vunerability found on Nov 4 2005, rather than default 1.4.0b1

  * improvements
  - upgrades dependency to PEAR_PackageFileManager 1.6.0b1

  * news
  - introduces ChangeLog and NEWS files for history and quality assurance

• 0.4.0 (alpha, 2006-05-21)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  * news
  - new api : getPreferences() to retrieve easily user options loaded.
  - options filelistgenerator was renamed to plugingenerator, and new filelistgenerator begin equal to PFM same option.
  - new configuration structure (more simple)
  gui options are now only supported by PFM FE Web.
  - setOption() and getOption() did not used any more the xpath ability of PEAR::Config

  * improvements
  - realpathnix() and array_merge_recursive2() are static class methods so they don't pollute the global namespace.
  - loadPreferences() is no more mandatory, and you can reload default options.
  - add a hack for PEAR::Config that cannot parse correctly boolean for XML container.
  - reduces amount of data stored in session

• 0.3.0 (alpha, 2006-05-13)
  Release notes

  License: PHP License 3.01

  Initial PEAR release after last step of proposal http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=381

  Since 0.2.0
  More tags of package.xml version 2.0 are now fully supported :
  - group
  - installconditions

  TODO
  - rewrite config file management (too much complex)

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