Hi All, I'm currently working on a PEAR packager, which uses a very simple config file to generate PEAR package (package.xml 2.0 compatible mostly). It started from an internal use of our company, but we'd like to open source. It's called Onion. Onion provides a standalone phar file to build package from package.ini file, to build a basic package, what you only need is 5 lines: [package] name = package name desc = package description version = 0.0.1 author = Author Name <email@email> stability, channel, dependency, roles, contents are also able to be specified. Here is some demo and screenshot: http://c9s.blogspot.com/2011/12/php-current-onion-php-package-builder.html This project is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/c9s/Onion And our pear channel http://pear.corneltek.com/ Hope you will like it. Thanks Best Regards, Yo-An Lin (c9s)