Re: pear installer in PHP 5.1 RC1

Hi Rasmus Lerdorf! On 08/11/05 12:06 you wrote: I actually believe that my opinion does not count much here (mainly because I did not touch the installer code in any way by now), but I'm offering my 2ct to be heard. > We can't put an RC1 out there until we fix the pear/XML_RPC issue. > Personally I'd like to completely get rid of it, but I see the following > options: > 1. Put pear 1.4 into RC1 which means we can drop XML_RPC and go REST Since this is an RC, for me it would be fine to have an actual alpha version bundled. That does not harm anyone. We still have to fix the REST stuff before doing so. Any other issues (like design problems and stuff) can definitly wait until the next RC. > 2. Force ext/xmlrpc to be mandatory and drop XML_RPC Anyway, fine too, since we are not actually talking about 5.1 final. > 3. Fix XML_RPC to not suck Should be done, actually, but it does not seem to be an option for 5.1RC, neither than for 5.1 in general. Since PEAR 1.4 will drop XML_RPC actually, I don't feel that we should release a 1.4 non-alpha still supporting RPC. > 4. RC1 goes out with a pear installer than only works if people compile > with xmlrpc Would also be fine with me. It's an RC, so for testing purpose. I can't believe that people will download and install 5.1RC1 just for testing PEAR. So, why not? > 5. Drop the pear installer completely from PHP 5.1 Sorry, but I hope that this will not happen. Actually the PEAR Installer is a feature that's delivered with PHP itself. Dropping it between 5.0 and 5.1 would make a BC break. > I'd actually like to see option 1. I know it isn't quite ready yet, but > perhaps we can get a few more people working on it and make it ready. I > can commit a day or two to it and I can bring in a couple of developers > from India as well if needed. But we'd need to understand where the > troublespots are and how much work may be left. I'd prefer the 1. version, too. Actually I'll have a couple of days free from work, when I'm back from Norway and will be playing around with the PEAR Installer anyway next week. So, if you need someone for testing, feel free to email me! Cheers! Toby -- Tobias Schlitt - Zend Certified Engineer GPG Key: 0xA6529579 a passion for php http://www.schlitt.info Like to say "thank you"? - http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/toby