Re: milestone moment for the PEAR 1.4.0 effort

Ian Eure wrote:

On Friday 22 October 2004 12:17 am, Stefan Neufeind wrote:

Greg Beaver wrote:

Although unit tests are not complete, every feature on the list of package.xml 2.0 features has been completed except for the bundle release type (easy).

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I will be releasing the first alpha shortly after testing is complete, and soon after 1.3.2.

May I raise these points again: - installation of web-applications (install in which dir, with which base-URL, multiple installations on same server, automatic update of all installations if wished)

Hmm, I've done this before by using package.xml replace functionality and shipping the apache config etc all bundled in a PEAR package. You just include the apache conf in your main config, and all is well. Are there other issues I'm not aware of, or do you just want to install apps outside of php_dir?

I thought about things like "Install guestbook under URL ..." or so, e.g. for ISPs. This would mean that you'd need to be able to specify a dir where the app should be installed. And it should be able to double-install imho. Maybe it would also be possible (optional?) to have common files in a central location and just copy the necessary html-pages, templates etc. upon each install. Idea would be that you *can* upgrade all installations of that webapp on the same server, or do the update selectively (e.g. per cusomer, upon his request). Stefan