Re: Re: [RFC] Binary pecl packages

On Thursday, June 19, 2003 8:42, Wez Furlong wrote: > When I get a little more time (in about 2 months!) I will be completing the > work that I started on the .MSI installer generator for PHP. > This will generate an installer for the PHP distribution (including PEAR) > based on the .zip binary distros cooked by the snaps machine and meta data > from the source tree. > One of the things that should be possible is generating additional .MSI > files for PECL packages. From the example below, the 'peclfoo' package would > be generated as 'peclfoo-3.1.2-<STATE>.msi'. > Since .msi is "equivalent" to .rpm, we would then have the benefits of a > system supported package manager; the main thing that I can think of is that > it will handle upgrading extensions that are in use (if the user has enough > privileges) by being able to stop the web server while it updates the file, > or perhaps scheduling a restart if that is required. Could this .msi generator be integrated into the pear cmd? A "pear makemsi" command would be cool. -- Tomas V.V.Cox mailto:cox@idecnet.com