Re: pear installer in PHP 5.1 RC1

Andi Gutmans wrote: > At 03:08 PM 8/12/2005 +0200, 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. > > > Didn't know about this. Guys, any reason we don't just do this? I prefer > it than keeping this dependency. It doesn't really solve the dependency, and it requires url-includes to be on, a network connection and privacy paranoids will complain that we are tracking their installs. -Rasmus