Re: The PEAR installer is shit...

The situation with the PEAR web and the PEAR installed is just bad now. The web is still beta, the installer is hard to setup, etc. The amount of people requesting help and info is getting too high, also the external projects that have started to use PEAR components. If we are not able to do an extra effort to get all the things completed and working soon will end flooded and flamed by many frustated and potential users/contributors. This is just a "call for finish what we have started" for those who want to see that taking success. Tomas V.V.Cox 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 > 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