Re: PEAR installer , download first check after

Hi, Perhaps Archive_Tar could be used to extract just the package.xml file at pear.php.net, and download that first. Then, all dependencies could be checked prior to download. Is this feasible? Greg "Yavor Shahpasov" <yavo@siava.org> wrote in message news:3E5E48FD.7090808@siava.org... > [root@odin smarty]# pear upgrade MDB > downloading MDB-1.1.1.tgz ... > ...done: 151,969 bytes > MDB not installed > > Ok i have noticed this in a couple of occations, pear installer seems to > download things first and check after, it would be better if the > dependancy requerements are checked first and then package is > downloaded, this would reduce the load on the client and the > pear.php.net server. I know this might be hard to do in some cases but > (you need the package.xml to check for dependancies), but there has to > be a better way to handle this. > > > Yavor >