Re: Making local installations easier

Sunday, September 28, 2003, 7:43:33 AM, Greg Beaver wrote: > Hi, > All this wrangling over BC raised a good point that I think could be > resolved easily enough: pear needs to support local installations better > to allow users to have local copies of PEAR packages for local > applications. Would there be any opposition to adding a new command > specifically for local PEAR packages? This would have no affect on > PECL, as PECL by nature must be a global installation. > Basically, the local command would search by default ONLY in the ~ > directory for .pearrc, or in windows, in UserDir (Documents and > Settings/ in XP, other dirs in earlier OSes that I don't know off the > top of my head, etc.). Someone with OS X would have to enlighten us as > to whether ~ is the same as it is in linux. > The difference here between --local and existing --installroot is that > --local is slightly more intuitive. --local would probably be > implemented as a wrapper around --installroot with some code to check OS > and specify the OS-specific ~ directory as the argument. > I don't know how the web installer would be affected by this change, > probably not much, since it's already quite versatile. IMHO this is just a documentation problem. The pear installer was designed taking in mind this issue. One just need to create a config file for your user or app. For example: # getting help $ pear help options Options: -v increase verbosity level (default 1) -q be quiet, decrease verbosity level -c file find user configuration in `file' -C file find system configuration in `file' -d foo=bar set user config variable foo' to bar' -D foo=bar set system config variable foo' to bar' -G start in graphical (Gtk) mode -s store user configuration -S store system configuration -u foo unset `foo' in the user configuration -h, -? display help/usage (this message) -V version information # generating a custom config file $ pear -c ~/.pearrc.myapp \ -d php_dir=<somedir> \ -d doc_dir=<somedir> \ -d ext_dir=<somedir> \ -s # using the custom config file $ pear -c ~/.pearrc.myapp install Foo This will install php classes at <somedir>, documentation at <somedir> and extensions at <somedir>, instead of the system wide paths. That's all. -- Tomas V.V.Cox mailto:cox@idecnet.com