Re: Bootstrapping PEAR for distros

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:48:31PM -0500, Greg Beaver wrote: > 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. This is great, thanks Greg. I'd like to reiterate Tim's request: if this is the recommended way to boostrap a PEAR environment then it would be good if the "pharball" was versioned and archived as any normal release tarball would be, so it'd still be possible now to retrieve the PEAR 1.4.5 .phar installer now. (and to be sure that we aren't just downloading a non-"release" installer) Regards, joe