Re: pear installer in PHP 5.1 RC1

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:08:50 +0200 edink@emini.dk (Edin Kadribasic) wrote: > 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 :) > > You mean like running: > > php -r "include 'http://go-pear.org/';" > > It's been there for years, and I don't understand why make > install-pear target doesn't do that instead of bundling. To be honest, it is not exactly the same as using simply go-pear.org :) I added a script (in the mean time fixed/enhanced by Edin and Wez) to fetch the required packages using a predefined list of versions. The versions are defined in cvs: php-src/pear/go-pear-list.php This file is now used only for windows releases. The original idea was to do that for each single releases but was rejected for various reasons (messing configure and other understable effects). I think it's more than required to do it now for source based releases as well. Now being either already for 5.1 (do not like the idea to mess too much the config thingies while being in RC stages) or in 6.0. Regards, --Pierre