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 PicaRecord provides an object oriented interface to Pica+ records, fields, and subfields. It does
 not provide the means to read or write Pica+ records. In order to do so you need to install the
-packages PicaReader and PicaWriter that are available via the same PEAR channel.
+packages PicaReader and PicaWriter that are available as dedicated composer packages.
 
-PicaRecord is copyright (c) 2012 by Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and released under the
+PicaRecord is copyright (c) 2012-2015 by Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and released under the
 terms of the GNU General Public License v3.
 
 * Installation
 
-PicaRecord should be installed using the [[http://pear.php.net][PEAR Installer]]. This installer is the PHP community's
-de-facto standard for installing PHP packages.
+You can install PicaRecord via Composer.
 
 #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-pear channel-discover hab20.hab.de/service/pear
-pear install --alldeps hab20.hab.de/service/pear/PicaRecord
+composer require hab/picarecord
 #+END_EXAMPLE
 
-PicaRecord depends on the [[http://phix-project.org/][Phix project's]] PSR0 compliant autolader, =Autoloader=.
-
 * Usage
 
 ** Records, Fields, and Subfields
@@ -140,44 +136,11 @@ record class has its own restrictions when it comes to appending a field to it v
 The attempt to add a field with a different level then the allowed level results in an
 =InvalidArgumentException= to be thrown.
 
-* Development
-
-If you want to patch or enhance this component, you will need to create a suitable development
-environment. The easiest way to do that is to install phix4componentdev:
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-apt-get install php5-xdebug
-apt-get install php5-imagick
-pear channel-discover pear.phix-project.org
-pear -D auto_discover=1 install -Ba phix/phix4componentdev
-#+END_EXAMPLE
-
-You can then clone the Git repository:
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-git clone git://gitorious.org/php-pica/picarecord.git
-#+END_EXAMPLE
-
-Then, install a local copy of the package's dependencies to complete the development environment:
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-phing build-vendor
-#+END_EXAMPLE
-
-To make life easier for you, common tasks (such as running unit tests, generating code review
-analytics, and creating the PEAR package) have been automated using [[http://phing.info][Phing]]. You'll find the
-automated steps inside the build.xml file that ships with the component.
-
-Run the command 'phing' in the component's top-level folder to see the full list of available
-automated tasks.
-
 * Acknowledgments
 
-The [[http://phix-project.org][Phix project]] makes it easy to setup and maintain a package repository for a PEAR-installable
-package and integrates important tools such as [[http://phpunit.de][PHPUnit]], [[http://phing.info][Phing]], [[http://pear.php.net][PEAR]], and [[http://pirum.sensiolabs.org/][Pirum]]. Large parts of this
-package would not have been possible without studying the source of [[http://search.cpan.org/dist/PICA-Record/][Pica::Record]], an open source
-Perl library for handling Pica+ records by Jakob Voß, and the practical knowledge of our library's
-catalogers.
+Large parts of this package would not have been possible without studying the source of
+[[http://search.cpan.org/dist/PICA-Record/][Pica::Record]], an open source Perl library for handling Pica+ records by Jakob Voß, and the practical
+knowledge of our library's catalogers.
 
 * Footnotes