Re: Making local installations easier

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:42:50 -0400 Greg Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net> wrote: > Hi you two, > > This is fine - I agree it could be documented better. Would there be > any objection to adding an alias of this nature: > > instead of: > > $ pear -c ~/.pearrc -d doc_dir=~/.pear/docs -d php_dir=~/.pear/PEAR > -ext_dir=~/.pear/exts -d data_dir=~/.pear/data install Package > > The user could type: > > $ pear --local install Package > > which would do the same thing. In this way, if a user is logged in as > > non-root and types > > $ pear install Package > > the error message could be something like: > > $pear install Package > Error: You don't have sufficient privileges to access pear install, > use pear --local install Package to install a local copy in > ~/.pear/PEAR/Package > > This would simplify docs, as a quickstart guide could be written, both > > for hosters (you too can allow people to install pear with no problem) > and for non-hosters. I missed the point here, not that I do not like an alias. I'm wondering how that will ease the write of a guide. > $ pearlocal install Package > Create ~/.pearrc? Y > [prompts similar to go-pear] I dot not like the idea of adding a pearlocal command, that sounds a bit weird to me (do we have a pear remote?). We may better to use ENV var and update accordingly pear.bat|sh to use them. pierre