For all of the fans of the pat* utilities offered by php-tools.net, there's some good news when it comes to keeping track of their latest releases - their inclusion in the pearadise.net site's listings.

This week, I finally managed to upgrade our server to the latest version of Chiara_PEAR_Server, which is now uses REST instead of XML-RPC. Besides all the new features this enables in our channel, one huge advantage of using REST is that I finally could add our channel to pearadise.net.

There are already seven channels registered, which is really great, as the site is still in beta-state and PEAR 1.4.0, which brought us the channel features is only stable for a few days.

I think we'll be seeing more and more of this kind of thing, especially with the latest edition of PEAR out the doors making it easier than ever...