Re: PEAR Installer?

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Dietrich Ayala wrote: > Is there any documentation or how-to's regarding the PEAR Installer, and the > package.xml format? I don't think so. For package.xml format, it's the best you look at the package.xml of other packages at the moment. The problem is, that some use the "old" style format. Auth should have a new one (others too) concering the installer. if you have a correct package.xml, you can make a package.tgz with pear package package.xml and later you are able to install this package with pear install package.tgz (or even with http://ho.st/package.tgz) I'm not really up to date with the whole stuff, but there should be a registry soon, which knows, which packages one has installed. the main problem is, that you need a cgi/standalone version of php for being able to use this pear scripts. that's where the WebInstaller comes into place, but this one is not finished yet (some basics do work at the moment.. see pear/WebInstaller.php). I like to develop that further, but a) i have not much time at the moment (should be better later in the year) and b) i rather wait, till the installer-classes settle a little bit ;) i hope, we can roll out a really useful WebInstaller with php 4.2 (*uu* i hope i didn't promise too much) so long chregu