Re: proposal: pear install-deps command

I wrote long time ago the experimental code for adding the pear command a real dependecy database (located at Registry.php from line 512). I will allow to detect recursive dependencies, detect dependecy breaks on uninstall, things like: # pear install pack1 pack3(needed_for_pack2) pack2(needed_for_pack1) # pear uninstall pack2(needed_for_pack1) Error: pack1 depends on pack2 # pear install --follow-deps pack1 Downloading/Installing pack3(needed_for_pack2) Downloading/Installing pack2(needed_for_pack1) Downloading/Installing pack1 I'll retake that work in the next days (AFAIR the code was working good, just needed deep tests). The good news is that the dependecies db could be built from scratch at any time, even over an already installed system. Tomas V.V.Cox ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Beaver" <greg@chiaraquartet.net> To: <pear-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 1:28 AM Subject: [PEAR-DEV] proposal: pear install-deps command > Hi, > > I would like to propose a new command, install-deps. This command would > work > exactly like pear install, except that it would automatically > install/upgrade > required packages specified in the <deps> section. It should also prompt to > install/upgrade optional dependencies. > > I will be happy to implement this command when I return in July, if no one > else is interested/has time. > > This would have obvious benefits for applications like phpDocumentor, as > applications by definition rely on multiple packages. It would allow the > reduction of size for a PEAR install by a factor of quite a lot (2.4 MB is > rather large). It would allow the splitting of phpDocumentor into a core > package, and several Converter sub-packages, each of which depends on > phpDOcumentor. This way, a user looking for a PDF documentation generator > could pear install-deps PhpDocumentor_PDF and it would automatically install > the core of phpDocumentor. > > This will also simplify the Lite API proposal. phpDocumentor could depend > on > phpDocumentor-lite. > > Regards, > Greg > -- > phpDocumentor > http://www.phpdoc.org > > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >