Re: Using the PEAR Installer for non-PEAR projects

On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 12:36, Dave Mertens wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 08:28:14AM +0200, Martin Jansen wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:13:31 +0200, Dave Mertens wrote: > > > > >In my case almost everything is installed in /usr/local/lib/php/, But there > > >is also a directory called extensions where for example php_gtk.so resides. > > >Maybe is a directory external, foreign or other a good namespace. > > > > The PEAR installer will also install PHP Extension to another > > directory: Simply run `pear config-show' and look for the > > value of ext_dir. This will be the directory where PHP extensions > > will be installed. You can change the value by using > > `pear config-set <your_directory_goes_here>'. > Like i said i didn't work much with the pear tool. In my case the extension > dir is just a sub directory (extension/no-debug-non-zts-20010901) of the > 'PHP_DIR'. > > > >On the other hand, why not installing those 'foreign' packages just in the > > >php/lib directory. > > > > For some programmers it might be easier to distinguish between > > their in-house code and the open-source code they are using, > > when they are stored at two different places. > But how is pear going to distinguish a in-house, foreign (other websites > than pear/php) and pear packages? > > But the only packages I've installed are only my own packages > to test them. And can i be right that the pear version that > http://pear.php.net/~cox/go-pear is delivering is different > from the one > that comes with php 4.1.2?? Last week i build a package with the pear from > 4.1.2. and didn't complain. This week after running go-pear, pear was > complaining that <description>, <license> and <state> were missing and > didn't build the package. > > Do i really have a f*ckup-ed distribution or is there a difference between > 4.1.2 and go-pear? > > BTW: My workstation didn't had a clean install since 1998 (Slackware 3.6), > now I'm running sl8, and a lot of packages were installed by hand. I hate > the fact that distributions are changing programs paths. I like the original > defaults ;-) Didn't reboot since 12 July 2000, a uptime of 648 days.. The PEAR installed shipped with 4.1.2 is pretty old, it had absolutely no consistency checks for the package.xml file. So those errors you get are correct. - Stig