[limb-users] Limb 3.x PEAR channel was officially launched!

[Pavel Chtchevaev]

Hello all!

After almost a year of hard working we're proud to announce the launch
of  PEAR channel for Limb 3.x packages: http://pear.limb-project.com !
These  packages  should greatly simplify the process of developing web
applications with PHP. One of the most interesting packages is web_app
which  allows you to develop web applications in Rails[1] alike way using
similar  controllers,  pretty  flexible ActiveRecord powered model and
excellent WACT[2] based views.

These  are  the  steps  you're  required to follow in order to install
web_app package and all its dependencies:

$ pear install PEAR-alpha # as of this writing PEAR 1.5 is required which is in aplha state
$ pear channel-discover pear.limb-project.com
$ pear install limb/web_app-alpha # we're in alpha state too ;)

The channel has a bit terse look right now however this is going to be
fixed  pretty  soon. We're also working on providing automatic nightly
builds of packages right from the repository.

The english documentation is mostly outdated but we're working on this
issue  as  well(we're  finishing  the  Russian  documentation  at  the
moment).  However  there  are  some simple examples in web_app package
which, hopefully, should help you get started quickly.

We'd  like  to thank all core Limb developers for their great work and
dedication to project. It would not have happened without you guys!

Let it be a new year present to all PHP agile geeks ;)

[1] http://rubyonrails.com
[2] http://phpwact.org


Best regards, Pavel
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