by Alan Knowles (alan_k@php.net)

This week has been a bit quieter on the Development list, so this weeks news should be nice and short, most of the discussion focused around the change to dirname(__FILE__) as a way of including files. This week saw 3 new releases, 1 stable, and 2 beta.


New Releases

Stable

Beta


PEAR-DEV traffic

HTML_Select, a standard set of Select boxes

There was continuing discussion about HTML_Select, a set of common select menus, like countries, counties etc, And how this should work with the HTML Package.

PEAR paths in require_once, and using dirname(__FILE__)

Lukas Smith brought up the topic again of changing PEAR's require_once structure to start using dirname(__FILE__), rather than relying on the include path to be correctly set. This appears to be a common issue when working with Hosted environments, and It was surmised that it may have a minor speed improvement, as PHP would not have to search each folder in the include path before including the file. Discussions where continuing.

MDB File structure

Lukas mentioned he was going to attack another item on his MDB todo list, moving the MDB files in to the standard PEAR structure.


New and Proposed Packages

Apache_LogParser name. This includes localized lists of the names.

Sagi Bashari announced a package to parse Apache Log files, and build statistics based on the information contained within, this also has uses parsing other applications that use similar log formats, like the Squid proxy server.


Development

Active on CVS this week has been Date, DBA, DB_Relational, MDB, PECL::apd, PECL::bcompiler, PECL:python, PECL::spread, XML_XSLT_Wrapper. And quite a few commits to the new peardoc2, the new PEAR manual.