Re: Re: cvs: php4 / TODO-4.1.txt

[Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com>] > At 06:53 PM 4/18/2001 -0400, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote: > > >*BLAM* > > > >That's the sound of someone shooting himself in the foot. The PEAR > >installer needs the XML extension. :-) > > What do you mean? Has work started on this already? > I'm not quite sure what you mean by the PEAR installer but I think we > should discuss the util we would need to list/fetch/build C extensions > from the PEAR repository on php-dev@. > I think it's a waste of time to decide right now what to remove > instead of trying to finalizing this utility. Once we see how well it > works it'll be time to start thinking of what extensions to remove. I > think it's just putting energy in the wrong place right now :) You don't read php-cvs anymore do you Andi? :-) If you configure the CGI and do "make install", you'll have a command-line utility written in PHP called "pear" that can do two things: make a package tarball, and install a tarball. It currently only support "pure PHP" packages. How to test it: $ cvs co pear/HTTP $ cd pear/HTTP $ pear package package.xml (this will give you a file called HTTP-1.0.tgz) $ pear install HTTP-1.0.tgz There's a lot of stuff missing from the installer still, but that'll be added in time. It is also UNIX-only right now. Since I'm not a Windows user myself, I totally depend on the help of some Windows people to make it work in Windows. The reason I joined the "what extensions to keep" discussion is that I think it (the discussion) is going to take some time. :-) - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway