Over on Greg Beaver's blog today, there's this new post with more information on one of the coolest PEAR-related packages/resources to come out in a good while - go-pear (with PHP_Archive) and the fact that's it's tested and works now on both Windows and Unix systems.

After several weeks of wrangling with the differences in streams support between PHP 4.3, 5.0, and 5.1, Davey and I have decided to drop support for PHP versions earlier than 5.1. Normally, I am all in favor of supporting the earliest version possible, but in this case appearances were deceiving. Streams support is innovative and wonderful, but simply doesn't work consistently between OSes and across versions until PHP 5.1.

With the help of Davey and Sara, they're on the road to PHP_Archive 0.6.0...and, to get the latest fruits of their labor (the go-pear package), you can download it here.