Re: packages moved :(

On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 09:57:28AM +0100, Stig S. Bakken wrote: > Okay, the plan is to select a core set of packages from /pear to be > included in PHP releases. How this will be done practically I don't > know yet, but I guess it would be either by syncing the right files into > /php4/pear, or including package tarballs and installing them with the > PEAR installer after PHP itself is installed. I think that's the way to go. The way the ActivePython installer works (on Windows, at least) is pretty solid. It installs the base system (in our case, PHP) and then proceeds to unpack and install all of the bundled packages (in our case, PEAR). I think there's even an option to grab additional or updated packages at this point over the network. I don't think this kind of installation infrastructure would be difficult to implement at all. Most of the fundamentals are already in place. -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Information Technology (2001) http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member