Re: Installer(s) do(es) not work

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 13:59, Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > Dear all, > > Php 4.1 binary + Apache 1.31 are installed on a Linux station. > > 1) According to http://pear.php.net, I downloaded /php4/pear > and tried > $ make scripts/pear scripts/pear-get > $ make install-programs bin_SCRIPTS='pear pear-get' > This does not work. > > 2) install-pear.txt > I tried make install-su. It does not work. > Shall I "loudly" complain? Saying for example your guys are trying to > re-create the wheel (RPM or DEB already exist, why not use them?). If we chose RPM, what should Debian users do? Install RPM in addition to APT/DPKG? And ditto for RedHat users, should they install DPKG? I have considered both RPM and DPKG, but PEAR's package system has some specific requirements that I found hard to fulfill with other package systems, without integrating deeply with the OS distribution's existing package system (at least in Linux lingo): * portability: the very same "100% Pure PHP" package will install on Unix, Windows or anything PHP/PEAR runs on * PHP extension dependencies: this would require integration with existing package manager * SAPI backend dependencies: ditto And so on. Instead, PEAR's package manager has (well, had, I haven't re-introduced this feature to the new version yet) a some options that package managers can use to wrap PEAR packages inside for example RPMs, and make sure both package systems' registries are maintained. > What will the situation be like when Php5 comes along? PEAR will exploit new PHP 5 features, using namespaces and exceptions. Maintainers will either declare at one point that they continue developing their package for PHP 5 only, that they will keep developing it for PHP 4 or that they intend to maintain both PHP 4 and PHP 5 versions. The package manager will either use dependencies information that we make easily available from the online database, or we define new release states with "5" appended for use by PHP 5 releases (ex. "stable5"). > How will you manage dependencies? Check out http://cvs.php.net//pearweb/rfc/003-dependencies.txt - Stig