Some thoughts about the PEAR Installer

Hi there So, it looks like the PEAR::Installer will make some progress soon. Great, i'm very glad to see that and i think, this is one important missing piece in the whole puzzle :) One problem I see with the pear-installer at the moment is, that one needs a cgi-version of php. So i think a webbrowser interface to the pear-installer would be a Good Thing. I know, that with a webbrowser interface (which runs a installer.php script on the "own" webserver) it's not possibly to write directly to the $PEARDIR directory, since this dir has seldom the same rights as the user the webserver is running. but if we just install the downloaded PEAR-Packages in a directory, where the server can write to (per default maybe the dir, the script was started), one can either use the Packages directly from this dir with the correct include_path set or one can move these scripts later on the command line to the $PEARDIR. I think, this would be a great tool, since then you don't have to install a command line php only to get pear-packages. The only thing a user has to do is to write a php-file in his dir with maybe the following commands: <?php include("PEAR/WebInstaller"); $installer = new PEAR_WebInstaller; $installer->start("dir/where/we/have/write/access/"); ?> then when the script is started, it will get a xml-file from the pear-server with all the packages and a short description, show this to the user. He can then select which Packages he wants and after that, they get installed in the dir stated above. Just my two cents and i'm willing to help with all that... so long chregu