Featurerequest. Missing task to create a PEAR package based on a package.xml file

[lars@…]

Feature request. Looking through the svn and docs, it seems there is no task for actually building a PEAR package based on a package.xml file. That would be a worthwhile addition to phing.

[anonymous]

wouldn't simple <tar> task suffice? I mean, we're already building pear packages with phing without much hassle:

<target name="package">
   <!-- copy necessary files to temp directory -->
   <copy ...>
      ....
   </copy>

   <!-- build package.xml -->
   <pearpkg2 ......>
   .....
   </pearpkg>

   <!-- compress to ${package.name}-${package.version}.tgz
   <tar compression="gzip" .../>
   <!-- and pack without compression too (for those without zlib installed) -->
   <tar .../>
</target>