expected features

- an intuitive (or any if the case is there is none) means of installing pear modules

- support for the PHP Exception Object (haven't made it that far so I can't really say that there is or isn't but based on the fact I don't see it in Debug->Exceptions I would have to say probably not.)

- A command line shortcut that provides a console with all the necesarry paths and what not for command line builds / interacting with pear, and pecl if nothing else.

optional:

- Rewrite it in C# and use NUnit or find something for test casing in C++ for the love of god.

- consider rewriting PHP in C# (you'd be doing Zend a favor, their tree is a nightmare of legacy VC++ 6 uck and ick.) Check out Iron Python, both the release and the implementation in Visual Studio 2005 in the Visual Studio 2005 SDK's September 2006 release; they demonstrate the intellisense provider and everything-- supposedly you can test it out but I haven't put that much effort into it-- there's a screenshot of it in the SDK.

- Do something about that pear documentation its hard to take things like this seriously:

PEAR_XMLParser::preProcessStupidSaxon()

especially when all I want to know is how to install a pear module.