Re: Replacement of placeholders at packaging time, not installation time

Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > The current behaviour of <replace ...> is to replace the placeholders > with their respective values upon installation. > > While I understand that there are some values that are only known at > installation time, there are placeholders that could already be replaced > at packaging time (@package_version@, for instance). Is there a > technical reason why this is not done? Thanks! quoting from http://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.developers.package2.tasks.php#guide.developers.package2.tasks.replace: "Note that package-info replacements are performed at packaging time, so files contain package-info replacements inside a .tgz/.tar release. pear-config replacements can only occur on the installation system, and are performed at install-time." Greg