Re: Re: Bootstrapping PEAR for distros

On 4/18/06, Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> wrote: > 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) I'm not sure to understand what you mean by non-release installer. A phar contains always a released PEAR version, the latest stable. About having various versions available, it is possible, but defeat the purpose of this file. We can provide some archive somewhere, I only do not want them in our cvs. In the meantime, if you like to provide a list of old versions, you can create the phar yourself using the scripts available in the pear-core module: http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/pear-core/make-installpear-nozlib-phar.php --Pierre