Re: Using the PEAR Installer for non-PEAR projects

Hi, I'm just throwing in a bunch of ideas I had. It may some are already covered or planned to do be done. If so, just point me in the right direction, thx ;) .) Installer defaults to PEAR_INSTALL_DIR but can be configured to install to anywhere the user wants it to (e.g. ~/.pearrc or by command line switch) .) Installer can handle multiple repositories (remote, local, wherever, much like debians /etc/apt/sources.list) .) Installed not only detects dependencies but can download them automatically (even never version of a package). Even when sebastion writes: pear install http://www.sourceforge.net/.../release.tar.gz and this release needs SOAP, this dependencies is detected and if a repository is configured it is tried to download and install it from there. OTOH, the package.xml in the release.tar.gz may contain an URI where to find a package this release dependens on. This could be just another http://www.anotherhost/.../other-package-release.tar.gz . Depending on the users preference such dependencies are automatically resolved (i.e. donwload and install without prompt) or may be prompted to do so) .) Interactive shell (CPAN?) regards, - Markus On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 06:04:09AM +0200, Tomas V.V.Cox wrote : > Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I took the necessary steps today to package future releases of > > phpOpenTracker with a simple > > > > pear -v package > > > > Any chance of using the PEAR installer to install phpOpenTracker, > > something like > > > > pear install ¹Û > > ½·üܫň¼Ší>}·http://www.sourceforge.net/.../release.tar.gz > > > > comes to mind. > > > > This would be _so_ cool! > > The PEAR installer was thought taking in mind other > non-pear-applications and even comercial ones. Just take in mind that > the software will be installed under the PEAR_INSTALL_DIR in the user > system. > > > Tomas V.V.Cox > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. GnuPG Key: http://guru.josefine.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc "Mind if I MFH ?" "What QA did you do on it?" "the usual?" "ah... none :)"