Some of you may know that I am a lead developer of the pear Date_Holidays package.
Date_Holidays helps you calculate the dates and titles of holidays and other special celebrations. This is all driver-based so it is easy to add new drivers that calculate a country’s holidays.
Until recently all of these drivers for individual countries were grouped together into one package.
We decided that this one package should be split into subpackages: one subpackage per region/country. Some advantages of this approach are that each driver / filter / subpackage gets it’s own stability and version number – we wouldn’t have to keep increasing the version number of Date_Holidays each time a new driver is added or when an existing driver gets a significant number of fixes.
Therefore we now have subpackages such as Date_Holidays_Austria, Date_Holidays_Brazil etc etc.
If you want to use the new set of [sub]packages, the simplest thing to do is uninstall the package that you have installed:
$ sudo pear uninstall Date_Holidays
and then install the new package, with a group directive which will install all subpackages:
$ sudo pear install Date_Holidays#all
Tags: date_holidays, pear
Hurray!