Question: Adding PEAR packages to composer.json about composer HOT 8 CLOSED

The "phppear" name above has really no meaning to composer, it's just for self-documentation purposes. The PEAR repository will read from the PEAR channel you give it, and create packages accordingly. The package name as defined by PEAR I believe is only MDB2, so that's what you should require, no phppear/ prefix.

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Also, I forgot to mention, this won't work until #61 is merged - which I hopefully will do tonight. If you want to try it anyway, use my fork's master branch in the meantime.

You can also use http://getcomposer.org/composer.phar to test stuff, it's built from my branch.

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Thanks Jordi.

So, if I add multiple pear repositories and then add a package to require, it will search all of the pear repositories for that package. Is that correct?

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That is correct. You never have to know where packages are, you just add repositories, and it'll find the fittest package in any of them, according to some rules (the DefaultPolicy class).

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Excellent… thanks so much.

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No problem, I just merged #61 btw, so you can now try with the sources if you like instead of the phar. And feel free to stop by on irc.freenode.org #composer-dev

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Thanks. BTW trying to build the phar from source and I get an error:

Call to undefined method Composer\Package\BasePackage::parseVersion() in phar:///Users/Shared/Sites/test/composer.phar/src/Composer/Repository/PearRepository.php on line 2

If this is just me being ignorant, then my apologies and please feel free to ignore this. :)

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I just pushed a couple fixes for the PEAR repository. Try recompiling the phar, it should go further but here I'm hitting another issue that I can't really fix right now. You might be more lucky with another PEAR repository though.

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