by Alexander Merz (alexmerz@php.net)
Alan Knowles family forces him to stay away from computers for some days ;-)
I hope, i can write the weekly news in the same quality like he did.
A brief digest: the dominating topic was LiveUser, Stig registered new PEAR related domain names and PEAR&privacy.
Markus Wolff asked for a new category called Perm for LiveUser. There was no agreement and Markus released LiveUser under the category Authentication.
Stig Bakken registered the web domains go-pear.org|.com|.net. They serve the go-pear script, which installs a current working PEAR base system including the PEAR installer. If you want a working PEAR on your system just run on your prompt:
lynx -source go-pear.org|php
Derick Rethans noted some possible privacy problems on the PEAR web. If you download a package, your IP will be stored for statistical reasons. This could hurd laws in some european countries. There was no decision how to handle this - we are programmer, not lawyers. If you more know then we, then wrote a note to the PEAR-Dev mailing list.
Richard Heyes and Marten Stolte posted some ideas about a Package for creating an pulldown menu for choosing an country name. This includes localized lists of the names.
Active on CVS this week has been bcompiler, LiveUser, DBA_Rational, MDB, Config, Cache_Lite, phyton, PEAR, XML_RPC, XML_XSLT_Wrapper, HTML_OOH-Forms, XML_Transformer.