Re: pear installer in PHP 5.1 RC1
| From: | Greg Beaver | Date: | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 05:16:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: pear installer in PHP 5.1 RC1 | ||
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Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
Andi Gutmans wrote:1) download install-pear.phar in order to package PHP (cron job, anyone?) 2) use this line in the makefile $PHP$ install-pear.phar I am currently struggling (slowly) with an annoying problem that is either in PHP_Archive or in Archive_Tar, and I can't tell which it is yet. GregAt 03:08 PM 8/12/2005 +0200, Edin Kadribasic wrote: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 Far better will be the solution based on a single-file .phar distribution of PEAR. Rather than downloading disparate components, the disparate components are essentially packed into a file. Then the steps to distribute PEAR with PHP involve: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.