Over on the PHP Magazine website this morning, there's a new posting covering one of their articles from their December Issue - Package Up Your App.

This piece covers the use of the ZZ/OSS Installer, a handy utility that allows you to "deploy applications in PEAR-like packages". Using a simple system of XML files and your application, the ZZ/OSS Installer grabs the application and it's files, combines them all together, and, using a web-based interface, allows you to add/remove/update allications quickly and easily through a package manager.

I almost wish that PEAR had something similar to this, at least as far as the intaller goes. There are a few scripts out there floating about that help you install the correct packages automatically, but a frontend would be quite nice...