Re: The PEAR installer is shit...

On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 02:22, Alexander Merz wrote: > ... it will not work on Win > > After trying to make the installer work on win in the last 3 hours, i give up > now after writing a lot of ugly workarounds. It is not possible to use them on > win. > > Reasons: > 1) Win-PHP still chrashs with PEAR_EXTENSION_DIR I believe this was because the PEAR_EXTENSION_DIR was defined to NULL in the C code for Windows. Did you build php.exe yourself? > 2) If this would work, it is senseless to use it and all other predefined > paths. The Win-Binaries set this to c:\php, which maybe match 1% of the > existing PHP installations on Win. > > To change this, it is required to rewrite a lot of non compatible stuff like > function PEAR_Installer($phpdir = PEAR_INSTALL_DIR, > $extdir = PEAR_EXTENSION_DIR, > $docdir = null) > > Stig, i sad all this already while working on win comp. for the 'pear' script, > but you did the same errors again. :( Well, not quite. The installer now uses a config file (see php4/pear/PEAR/Config.php) where it will get the directories for php files, extensions and docs. However, the name of this config file is still based on those macros for Windows, it should probably use an environment variable instead. FFF (feel free to fix). If you want the installer to work on Windows, you need to help me out here. :-) - Stig