The PEAR Installer Manifesto
Greg Beaver über The PEAR Installer Manifesto
A few years back, while designing the next incarnation of the PEAR Installer, I realized that its ability to do file transactions, intrinsic support for dependencies and versioning make it ideal for managing not just PHP libraries and applications, but also for managing complete websites, and not just the PHP files, but all file-related events. There were just a few elements missing: how to synchronize a database? It turns out that the answer is also PEAR-related, and was one of the features integrated in PEAR 1.4.0 and newer.
Klingt interessant, in den Kommentaren kommen die Vorzüge gegenüber anderen Methoden wie svn/cvs oder phing deutlicher zu Tage als im Artikel selbst. In jedem Fall lesenswert!