Modfication to pear install procedure (was Re: [PEAR-DEV] Error with PhpDocumentor!)

Hi, The problem with the current method of installation is that the package must be extracted before dependencies can be determined. A possible solution (which would be very worthwhile to implement) would be to extract the package.xml file at the server and send that before the download occurs, so that failure on dependencies can happen prior to download. In this way, we could add a dependency on Archive_Tar 1.1 and it would actually work. Comments? Greg "Olivier Hill" <ohill@php.net> wrote in message news:3EF9CE4C.5090007@php.net... > Joshua Eichorn wrote: > > try pear upgrade Archive_Tar and pear > > upgrade PEAR before doing the > > install > > Ok, it works, thanks. > > Would there be a way to detect those dependences? Something like RPM does? > > Oliver >