Some days are better than other to take good decisions. Today is one of them. After many years, it is time for me to spend some time on other projects and activities than PEAR. That’s why I send this mail to the list:

A small mail to tell you that I leave pear now. I do not have much else to say without going in personal things, so let stop here

All packages I maintained or co maintain has got other leads in the past weeks or monhts or we have been many already. I already set me as inactive everywhere. There is a couple Validate Locale without maintainers, but it should not be that hard to find someone else.

Why today and not next month or before does not really matter, no?

But stay tuned, things are moving fast here, more new things are coming!

NB: PECL has nothing to do with PEAR, so no I do not leave PECL, I’ll be even more active there

Zip is stable since two releases. I lacked the time to report it Three bugs were important:

• zipArchive::addFile was not updated and still used VCWD_REALPATH, it now uses expand_filename, all other methods have been fixed in 1.7.2
• freshly created archive has no comment or cdir, it segfaulted when you try to dump the archive object
• properties in extended class cannot be set (see the example code below)

<br />
<?php<br />
class myZip extends ZipArchive {
    public $testp = 1;</p>
 
    function __construct() {
       /* Do smtg */
    }
}
 
	<p>$z = new myZip;<br />
$z->testp = &#8220;sometext&#8221;;<br />
?><br />
 

Once PHP 5.2.0 is out, I will focus on the new features. Write stream support, unicode (php6+ support), pattern based addition/extraction and crypting functions.

As the sidenote, even if downloads stat are not really reliable, zip is now the fourth most downloaded extension

• Zip Homepage
• Changelog