Re: pear installer question.
| From: | Stig S. Bakken | Date: | Mon, 18 Feb 2002 06:57:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: pear installer question. | ||
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On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 11:49, Tomas V.V.Cox wrote:
> Vincent Blavet wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> I would preffer also a single 'pear' for all. Ok, I understood that
> certain local and remote command names may clash, but a "pear remote *"
> familly of commands is good enough IMO.
>
> And about interactive usage, I'm against using it (you only have to see
> how difficult is for a novice user install something from CPAN).
> Questions need answers, answers need knowledge.
Okay, then let's go for a single command. I agree with Tomas on the
interactivity, at least for now. With the command API I proposed last
week it should be easy to build Gtk or web UIs that could offer a
user-friendly interface.
- Stig