Re: Bootstrapping PEAR for distros

Tim Jackson wrote: > This is cleaner, but downside of this is that, as far as we can > determine, there isn't an official .phar build for new PEAR releases and > therefore PEAR in Fedora is currently locked to the last PEAR version > included in a PHP release, which mostly defeats the object of splitting > the package off. To my great surprise, I have a simple answer for you that solves all your problems: http://pear.php.net/install-pear-nozlib.phar This is always updated to the latest and greatest PEAR of the moment. In fact, this is what is used to create the snapshots for PHP 5.1. Beware that .phar will not work with PHP < 5.1, so if that's the case, your best bet is to grab the php-src/pear directory, branch PHP_4_4, and look at the Makefile.frag for a better example of how to bundle PEAR in an unzip-and-go fashion without a .phar. Greg