Greg Beaver shares his excitement today about his book from Packt Publishing, The PEAR Installer, will be released and headed out to shelves next week.

This book originally started as two chapters in the recently released PEAR Book. After receiving the first chapter, a 70-page behemoth on the features available in package.xml version 2.0, the publisher decided this was too exciting and should be its own book.

Greg tals more about the contents of the book, all six chapters/270 pages, including some interesting ideas like using the PEAR Installer to maintain a live website. He also includes a link to be able to order it with a twenty percent discount (pre-order).