Re: Using the PEAR Installer for non-PEAR projects

Dave Mertens wrote: > > > > > 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? pear is not going to do so, but you can do it manually: # comercial apps pear -d php_dir=<foo> install Package # PEAR packages pear install Package > 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. Just read the error message and fix your package.xml file :-) > Do i really have a f*ckup-ed distribution or is there a difference between > 4.1.2 and go-pear? go-pear downloads all the stuff directly from CVS HEAD. It will be almost the same as the installer comming with 4.2.0 Tomas V.V.Cox