Re: Relocating a pear installation

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Beaver wrote: >> 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. Hmm .. really? I mean, when I relocate my pear installation (= physically moving files around) my data dir goes with it, so this should , and in my case, does work. Or did I understood you wrongly? - - Markus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFAGIF1nS0RcInK9ARAnvsAJ49YZQtODUDSFVkzNT4pHbHUnev5gCfXfdk EDG1RiWjFryVTG2c3m8VjdM= =St6f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----