10.2. PEAR Concepts
This section explains some PEAR concepts, namely packages, releases, and the versioning scheme.
10.2.1. Packages
When you want to install something from PEAR, you download and install a particular release of a package. (You learn more about releases later on.) Each package has some information associated with it:
Package name (for example, HTML_QuickForm)
Summary, description, and home page URL
One or more maintainers
License information
Any number of releases
PEAR packages are not unlike other package formats, such as Linux's RPM, Debian packages, or the System V UNIX PKG format. One of the major differences with most of these is that PEAR packages are designed to be platform-independent, and not just within one family of operating ...
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