Re: MFH -R php4/pear/* files

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 22:29:38 +0200 Martin Jansen <mj@php.net> wrote: > The original plan was to only bundle the PEAR installer and all > packages, which are required to make it work, with PHP 4.3.0. All > other components should stay outside and must be installed via this > installer. The original post talk about 4.2.3, not 4.3.0 where plans are effectivly clear. > Actually everyone must be aware that this will cause a bazillion of > bug reports stating that people can't find DB.php or something else > which has been bundled with PHP forever. To avoid this we might decide > if the most popular PEAR packages (DB) will still be bundled. Updated pear package manager is not a impossible task or ? > Anyways, the release cycle for 4.3.0 has already gone pretty far, so I > think that this decision is over to the release masters (Zeev, > Derick?) and Stig. Sure, keeping in mind that will help us to get a larger working base to test and get feedbacks for the major release 4.3.0, actually it s a pain to tell every days the same thing to people who want use pear on windows platform. pa