PEAR 1.4 takes a REST
Greg Beaver has decided to try moving from XML-RPC to REST for the pear installer:
I suspect the only reason nobody thought to do this for the first incarnation of the PEAR installer is that REST just isn’t as sexy in appearance. I mean, how cool is it that you can call a function on a remote server as if it were in the same script? REST requires clunkier thinking in terms of resources. It is more like accessing information in an xml file via XPath versus grabbing it through an abstraction that does some of the magic processing for you.
