Re: Re: PHP 4.3.0 (Win32, zip) not bundled with PEAR?

By the way, I did get the installer script working on Windows. If you're interested see my mail in php.pear.dev on December 30, 2002 (Subject: Re: PEAR installer missing on Windows + PHP 4.3.0 (pear.bat refers to missing file?)). Peter "Christoph Grottolo" <cg@gordimer.net> wrote in message news:20030101200728.5419.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Katana wrote: > >> Yeah, i know about this, but i really thought that PEAR should > >> be a fixed part of PHP distributions. So, will this be fixed? > > It looks like since pear is not working (correctly ?) on win, it is > > not part of the win distrib... > > PEAR ist working on windows, only the installer script has some problems. > > I understand the reason for not delivering it, but why is this called 'beta' > quality on http://pear.php.net? Why is nothing mentioned in the > release > notes (until now, PEAR Beta had been delivered with the releases) of the > distribution? > > The status, PEAR wants to achieve (be better than CPAN) also lives from > reliability - the system itself has to be stable and transparent, even if > some of the classes are only in beta quality, others already discontinued. > > For me, this 'never-know-what's-going-on-next' is still the weakest point of > PEAR, along with the thin documentation of the core system (imagine you're a > windows user and then install PEAR acording to the official docs). This is > specially bad because many classes have now grown mature and usable. > > I hope the developers keep an eye on this in order that PEAR doesn't > continue as an insider tip - it would deserve much more. > > Christoph > >