Re: proposal: pear install-deps command

I didn't know that optional dependencies were added. I'll need to take a look at what is and the code which handles it. I guess that pear is the first package manager supporting optional dependencies, thing that imo is not a very good idea :) Tomas V.V.Cox ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Beaver" <greg@chiaraquartet.net> To: <pear-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 6:43 AM Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] proposal: pear install-deps command > Hi, > > The only thing that will need to be implemented is a check for optional > dependencies in this code, and prompting for the user (perhaps with a > javascript popup in the web frontend, and just normal prompting in the > command-line). > > I'm delighted to hear you have code to do this already :) > > Greg > "Tomas V.V.Cox" <cox@idecnet.com> wrote in message > news:002201c32d61$e85f8e80$0d0a0a0a@COX... > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >