Re: pear installer in PHP 5.1 RC1

Pierre-Alain Joye <pierre@dotgeek.org> wrote: > This is a non issue. You are bring the ErrorStack file problem at a > level I would not even think about. Or I will but my conclusions > about the installer (1.4 included) will be slighty different. > > It is one file, used by PEAR itselft, the base installer/core pear > should not have dependecy. Pierre, The base PEAR installer already has dependencies -- Archive_Tar, Console_Getopt and XML_RPC. Even though the XML_RPC dependency is on the way out, two others remain for the time being. Given that those dependencies exist, what's the problem with an additional dependency on an external PEAR_ErrorStack? I have a hard time seeing the problem with a handful of dependencies -- after all, breaking the installer down into a few dependent parts reduces overall bloat, and allows for more flexible release schedules to fix bugs. If there's a problem with Archive_Tar or Console_Getopt, they can be addressed without the hubbub that's involved in a full-blown PEAR version upgrade. Multiple dependencies, within reason, add up to flexibility. I don't see a problem with the PEAR Installer having two to five dependencies. -Clay -- Killersoft.com