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

At 08:03 AM 4/19/2001 -0400, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote:

[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? :-)

I do but I'm senile :)

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

OK I definitely missed that one.

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. :-)

Yeah but I just thought it'd be better to focus people's energy on getting it to work :) Andi