Re: pear installer in PHP 5.1 RC1
| From: | Pierre-Alain Joye | Date: | Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:51:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: pear installer in PHP 5.1 RC1 | ||
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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:47:11 -0700
andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans) wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Not a good situation where the PEAR dependency is slowing down
> the PHP release. Maybe the best way to resolve this in future is
> to have a "self-booting" script in the PHP distro that grabs the
> "to-be-used" PEAR installer from pear. Hopefully something so
> simple that it wouldn't need updating :)
This is what we do on windows releases for example. For once
windows is more flexible ;)
> Anyway, I saw Rasmus' commit. I think it's a decent option for
> now. Can you please review it and let me know when I can go ahead
> and roll RC1? I am having some minor arm surgery tomorrow but
> I'll try and read email (if I wake up from the anesthetic :) and
> worst case, I'll ask someone else to roll. In any case, seems to
> me that it's best to roll on Monday and not tomorrow to give at
> least a day to review what we have.
It's fine with me to release with 1.3.x in and not XML_RPC at all,
forcing the usage of ext/xmlrpc.
After the RC1, we can still see if 1.4 becomes a better choice.
Regards,
--Pierre