About Net_Growl package and its status

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Hi all,

If you're interested by the only PHP classe currently, to implement full
UDP and GNTP protocol for Growl : the native MAC OS/X notification
system, that could now run on Windows system too... Net_Growl is the
solution !

For the first time of history Windows team won some little steps to MAC
  team (that have not yet fully implemented the new GNTP protocol, but
will do).

Growl for windows [1] (aka Gfw) make the lead. Current version is 2.0.0RC2

Brian Dunnington, author of Gfw, has just released today the second
release candidate (closed to the final stable version 2.0.0)
Please give it a try, you won't regret it. Download link is [2]

By the way the sticky tag message on PEAR:Net_Growl page [3] is not
really correct
"This package is not maintained,",
because I continue to work on its new versions.

Have a look on my current works on my new home page dedicated to
Net_Growl [4].
Of course, the contents (source online) are a bit outdated. But I
promise to updates it very soon with a full user documentation (at least
for the final stable version 2.0.0)

The latest version (2.0.0RC1) released few minutes ago is a full PHP5
rewrites that support both UDP and GNTP features.
The is also a 0.9.0b2 version for PHP4 users, but latest features
(encryption messages) were not yet added.

Regards,
Laurent Laville

[1] http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/default.aspx
[2] http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/d.ashx?f=Growl_v2.0rc2.zip
[3] http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Growl
[4] http://growl.laurent-laville.org/

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[Christian Weiske]

Hello Laurent,



> By the way the sticky tag message on PEAR:Net_Growl page [3] is not
> really correct
> "This package is not maintained,",
> because I continue to work on its new versions.
Nice to hear from you again, Laurent! I updated the package data,
marked the package as maintained again and you as active.

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Christian Weiske a écrit :

> Hello Laurent,
>
>
>
>> By the way the sticky tag message on PEAR:Net_Growl page [3] is not
>> really correct
>> "This package is not maintained,",
>> because I continue to work on its new versions.
> Nice to hear from you again, Laurent! I updated the package data,
> marked the package as maintained again and you as active.
>

Hello All,

Related to latest version 2.0.0RC1
Source code and examples are now up-to-date on my webpage
http://growl.laurent-laville.org/

Bertrand,
I've pick up your growl PEAR Error example ==> see appendix B2.


Hello Christian,

I will certainly disapointed you, but I don't think to update PEAR
repository content.

Here are my point of view, that if I'm not wrong, is not the way of PEAR
standard.

First:
- name of package and version
   The new branch 2 is a full rewrites to PHP5, but I keep the name of
original package and I don't want to rename it to Net_Growl2

   My reason is simple. If we follow the version naming X.Y.Z where X
stand for major version (API break BC) Y stand for minor and Z for bug only.

   Why create a new package, that is responsible of confusion in
end-user mind. I see what is was done in past with HTML_Progress and
HTML_Progress2
   There are no reason to continue to use HTML_Progress in theory, but
it's not the case in real world (still more 4200 downloads)
   Version 1.2.6 that was just a QA release (see detail in changelog [1])

   Compare to HTML_Progress2 2.4.1 with 4800 download

   I don't want to create a new confusion in mind with Net_Growl.

Second:
- Even if latest version 2.0.0RC1 is ready for production (especially
with encryption message features), there is no Unit-test suite available.

   I just have in mind (and free time) to write a user doc for final
stable version.

That's all

[1] http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_Progress/download/1.2.6

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