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What is PEAR?

Oct 18th, 2001 08:18
Philip Olson, John Lim, http://pear.php.net/

PEAR is the fruit of PHP. PEAR is a code repository for PHP extensions 
and PHP library code similar to TeX's CTAN and Perl's CPAN.  More 
information on what PEAR is can be seen here :
  http://www.php.net/manual/en/pear.about.php
The intention behind PEAR is to provide a means for library code 
authors to organize their code in a defined way shared by other 
developers, and to give the PHP community a single source for such 
code.  Don't hesitate to read the official PEAR faq :
  http://pear.php.net/faq.php
More information on downloading PEAR files :
  http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/8945/fid/70