Re: The PEAR installer is shit...

Alexander, I also see that the win part of PEAR is a large area that still need to be improved ! I already start to work on the pear-win scripts in order to add the missing commands that exists in unix scripts, but failed mainly because of the no support of XML-RPC. On my win system I can run the pear.bat script, with the following changes : adding : set PHP_SYSCONFDIR=d:\php\bin\php modifying : %PHP_PATH%\php.exe -c %PHP_SYSCONFDIR% -q %PEAR_INSTALL_DIR%\scripts\pearwin.php %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 I did not have enought time (unfortunatly) to commit myself on a work to improve the win part of the package installer. But I will do as soon as I can. Vincent ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Merz" <alexander.merz@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> To: <pear-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:22 AM Subject: [PEAR-DEV] The PEAR installer is shit... > ... 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 > 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. :( > > Cu, Alex > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >