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IBM developerWorks: A step-by-step guide to publishing your own PEAR channels |
As mentioned over on the Zend Developer Zone, the IBM developerWorks website has posted a a new tutorial with a handholding guide to the creation of your own PEAR channels. This tutorial discusses channels, introduces and explains the channel.xml file, and demonstrates how to build a channel for distributing packages. Channels are ordinarily used to expose PEAR packages through the Internet, but enterprises can uses channels to make distribution of enterprisespecific PHP code easy.You'll need to log in to the IBM developerWorks website to get to the good stuff (you do have a login, don't you?), but once you do, you'll find a guide that goes through:what PEAR is and what PEAR channels arechannel management (including the channel.xml file)building the XMLRPC methodspublishing the channelinstalling and upgrading a test packageand some troubleshooting hints and further resources
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