Re: Packaging a "bin" dir correctly?

On Sep 15, 2008, at 12:20 , Brett Bieber wrote:

Very good, sir, and thank you: that does the trick. The options array now looks like this ... $opts = array(

      'baseinstalldir'    => '/',
      'packagefile'       => 'package2.xml',
      'packagedirectory'  => dirname(__FILE__) . '/trunk/',
      'filelistgenerator' => 'file',
      'roles'             => array(
          '*' => 'php',
      ),
      'exceptions'        => array(
          'bin/solar'   => 'script',
      ),

); ... and "bin/solar" goes into "pear/bin" on installation. Thanks!

Slightly better: using "dir_roles". $opts = array(

    ...
    'dir_roles' => array(
        'tests' => 'test',
        'docs' => 'doc',
        'bin' => 'script',
    ),
    ...

); It still puts the scripts in "pear/bin/bin/solar" though.

Eh, I think that would be the 'installas' option... 'installas' => array('foo' => 'bar') will install foo as bar instead.

Have tried that using 'installas' => array('bin/solar' => 'Solar/solar') and no joy -- it appears to be ignored by the packaging mechanism. Am I setting it incorrectly?

The end result would be something like what Ken Guest has for the PEAR_Size package.xml file: http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/pear/PEAR_Size/package.xml?view=markup Maybe that will send you down the right path.

I get the feeling it's close, but not quite on the mark. E.g., the PEAR_Size XML looks right, but I don't see how it's getting generated. This looks like the generator script: <http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/pear/PEAR_Size/scripts/create_package.xml.php?view=markup

Other thoughts? -- Paul M. Jones http://paul-m-jones.com/