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From: "Brett Bieber" on 7 Jul 2008 12:26 Hi Don, On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Dons Mail <Donald(a)shaw.ca> wrote: > Perhaps you could tell me how I can enquire about the future of that > particular package. I would love to find out if it will ever be upgraded to > being Stable. I am aware that I could force it to install but if I did that > and something happened I would feel really bad. I don't even have a clue > what could happen, all I really know is that I wouldn't want to cause any > trouble at all. Thanks again for your reply. Sincerely. Don. The best way to check the status of a particular package is to ask on PEAR-general, or contact the lead developers. The leads for MP3_Playlist are listed on the package homepage at http://pear.php.net/package/MP3_Playlist The only risk to installing an 'unstable' package is that a newer release may change the api you're using - which is only a problem if/when you upgrade that particular package. PEAR's quality standards require that once a package is released as stable all future stable releases are backwards compatible; this ensures that upgrades will not change functionality. By releasing a package as alpha/beta, the developers can still change the api. Hopefully that gives you an overview of how the package status is used in PEAR. -- Brett Bieber http://saltybeagle.com/ |