Multiple packages install (was Re: [PEAR-DEV] php4/pear proposal, core stuff)

Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 19:24:50 +0100 > "Alexander Merz" <alexander.merz@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote: > > If the pear installer works perfectly, the end user will notice nothing about > > what happens. :) > Christmast time has gone ;)). Ey! What's wrong with the pear installer? it works quite good. > >It's no problem, to add some lines to the php makefile to > > install common used packages like IT etc through the pear installer while doing > > php's "make install". > And get /pear via the installer/webinstaller itself, with a little note after the install to > tell where to find further pear packages and the howtos. Multi-packages downloads is a thing in mind and cursory discussed time ago. Think in a simple XML file like: <multi> <title>The core PEAR components</title> <version>1.2</version> <packages> <package>Mail_Mime-1.0.tgz</package> <package>Auth-1.0.tgz</package> <package>...</package> </packages> </multi> That could remote install all the packages with something like: # pear-get install-multiple core.xml Also this file could be the "packages.xml" file of a tgz with multiple packages inside (core-1.2.tgz). System admins would be very happy with this :-) > Anyway, clean the pear tree will make our life easier to work with. Has some advantages also: you don't need to do anything to use the classes :) I normally use XML, Bench, Mail, DB, Upload, Pager, etc, etc, etc and I want to have an easy way for installing all of them at once. Tomas V.V.Cox