Re: pear installer question.

I'm agree for a single command 'pear' and not multiple ones (like it was sometimes ago, and like it is still for the Windows script). I think interactivity is not that much important, but having a clear verbose mode will be great. Vincent ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Heyes" <richard@phpguru.org> To: "Stig S. Bakken" <ssb@fast.no> Cc: <pear-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 2:13 PM Subject: RE: [PEAR-DEV] pear installer question. > > The difference between "pear" and "pear-get" is that "pear" > > does local > > operations, while pear-get does remote operations. I split them up to > > make it easier to determine between commands like "pear-get list" (which > > lists packages on the remote server), and "pear list" (which lists > > packages you have installed). > > > > I'm still not entirely happy with the command structure. For example, > > "uninstall" is a sub-command of "pear" now (because it is a local > > operation), but this may not be obvious to everyone. Suggestions > > welcome. :-) > > Eww! This sucks imho. The installer is, lets face it, for the common > (l)user, and he/she most likely won't use it that much. This means that: > > o Ease of use is very important > o The commands won't get memorised > > It would therefore be more userfriendly (imho I suppose) if it worked like > so: > > o A single command, "pear" > o Multiple descriptive operations, eg "list-installed", "install", "search" > o Interactive nature for when the installer is not sure what to do, eg: > > [root@heyes_01 blaat]# pear install Mail_Mime > Mail_Mime and Mail_mime-*.tgz not found! Would you like to try searching? > [Y/n] y > Searching... > Found: > 1 Mail_Mime-1.4.tgz > 2 Mail_Mime-1.3.tgz > 3 Mail_Mime-1.2.tgz > 4 Mail_Mime-1.1.tgz > 5 Mail_Mime-1.0.tgz > Would you like to download and install any of these? [1-5/N] 3 > Downloading Mail_Mime-1.2.tgz... > Installing Mail_Mime-1.2.tgz... > Finished! > [root@heyes_01 blaat]# > > o If no operation is given or an invalid one, print a verbose usage! > > -- > Richard Heyes > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >