Re: Patch: automatic dependency resolution, and new install options --alldeps and --allreqdeps

Stefan Neufeind wrote:

On 28 Aug 2003 at 13:39, Alexander Merz wrote:

Tomas V.V.Cox wrote:

This is great stuff. Time ago I coded a real dependecy database for the installer (at php-src/pear/PEAR/DependencyDB.php), which was intented to suppport that. The code now only builds the database but

As an idea: if SQLLite will be bundled with PHP5 really, we could drop your custom registry and dependencyDB stuff and switch to SQLLite for this purposes. So we can use simple SQL for checking and storing, which would makes its easier to do installer programming and reduces the size of the installer.

But please keep in mind that PHP5 will be released at the end of this year and then still we'll have 4.x-systems out there. Lucky that we don't need to support 3.x-systems any more - but you will see v4- systems for quite a while still after php5-release, believe me. And we can't break PEAR to only run on v5-systems.

Unless someone wants to port a subset of sqlite to native PHP :). I'm not volunteering, just to clear up any confusion! ;) Greg