Re: Relocating a pear installation

Markus Fischer wrote: > Hi, > > Markus Fischer wrote: > >>>Justin Patrin wrote: >>> >>>>>Well, you could write a simple PHP script to unserialize and walk >>>>>through the array, fixing the paths. >>> >>>Ok, thanks. Is there any existing script to do that? If I would work on >>>such a thing, would the PEAR community be interested in integrating this >>>functionality? >>> >>> >>>>>Or you could just reinstall...it's not *that* hard, is it? >>> >>>Well, do safely deploy our software we need to version everything, so >>>also PEAR installation. We always need exact version and not the latest, >>>we can't guarantee that it would work properly. > > > I've now gone through the process of relocated. Relocating the paths in > pearrc and the registry was a no-brainer, however there are so many > absolute paths scattered through induvidual package sources (e.h. > phpDocumentor) it's impossible to automate this process seriously. I > wonder why package authors have to rely on hardcoded paths inside the > source after installation of their package instead of getting this > infomration also e.g. from pearrc or similiar. It's probably that > packages want to be independent too, I guess. With this situation I > don't see a sane way providing a completely automated process. The reason is that if you change data_dir in pearrc, phpDocumentor would suddenly and mysteriously be unable to find templates. That would not be so good. :) Greg