Re: The Nature of PEAR's Greatness

On 9 Apr 2004 at 16:59, Greg Beaver wrote: > Arthur Hundiak wrote: > > > * The installer is great. > > > > COMMENT: It's fine when it works. The problem is that is simply does not > > work on many common setups. In a way that's not so bad if we assume that > > using PEAR classes is only for the serious developer. Casual developers > > need not apply. > > define "many common setups" > > I have seen it confirmed working in PHP version 4.2.0-PHP5HEAD on: > > Windows 98/2000/XP (4.2.0 is affected by a bug in pear.bat PEAR v1.3.1) > debian > slackware > OSX > freebsd > redhat 9.0/8.0 > > If there are problems, they can be fixed. However, I don't see any > open bugs in the PEAR package saying "installation doesn't work for > OS blahblah"... I've only seen problems myself on RedHat, because they shipped a rather old version of PEAR with php. However, even in those days you could simply run a go-pear and everything worked smooth! So from my side I can also advocate: PEAR works, no matter on which system I tried it or had to use it. Stefan