Re: pear installer sanity check

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 23:39, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > The pear installer is going to be a key element to the success of PEAR. > It has a few issues at this point. A quick walkthrough: > > % pear list-installed > > Installed packages: > =================== > +----------------+----------+--------+ > | Package | Version | State | > | Archive_Tar | 0.4 | stable | > | Console_Getopt | 0.10 | beta | > | PEAR | 0.10-dev | beta | > | DB | 1.2 | stable | > | XML_Parser | 1.0 | stable | > | XML_RPC | 1.0.3 | stable | > +----------------+----------+--------+ > > Good > > % pear help package-info > > <pear package> > Shows information about a PEAR package > > > Not a great help page, but ok, it tells me I need to specify a pear > package name: Work in progress. We just revamped the entire command/help system to ease php-gtk integration, some commands are still missing good docs, and there are some rough edges still. > % pear package-info DB > > tgz :: could not open file > > Ungood Not a very good command name, I agree. It only operates on tarballs or package description (XML) files right now. I'm thinking of renaming it to "info" and making it accept files as well as names of installed packages. > % pear upgrade DB > upgrade to a newer version (1.2 is not newer than 1.2) > > ok > > % pear list-remote-packages > <PRE>---GOT--- > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 21:29:30 GMT > Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) PHP/4.2.0RC2 > X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.0RC2 > Content-length: 52599 > Connection: close > Content-Type: text/xml > > &lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding=&quot;iso-8859-1&quot; ?&gt; > &lt;methodResponse&gt; > &lt;params&gt; > &lt;param&gt; > &lt;value&gt; > &lt;struct&gt; > &lt;member&gt; > &lt;name&gt;Archive_Tar&lt;/name&gt; > ... > > uh? > > At the end of reams and reams of raw XML I finally do get a readable list. Also work in progress. I have left debug mode on in the XML-RPC fallback implementation to try tracking it down. Build PHP with the xmlrpc extension for now, it's much smoother and faster. > % pear install Date > installed file /usr/local/lib/php/Date.php > installed file /usr/local/lib/php/Date/TimeZone.php > install ok: Date 1.1 > > % pear list-installed > Installed packages: > =================== > +----------------+----------+--------+ > | Package | Version | State | > | Archive_Tar | 0.4 | stable | > | Console_Getopt | 0.10 | beta | > | PEAR | 0.10-dev | beta | > | DB | 1.2 | stable | > | XML_Parser | 1.0 | stable | > | XML_RPC | 1.0.3 | stable | > | Date | 1.1 | stable | > +----------------+----------+--------+ > > Cool > > It would also be good if shortcuts could be added for common operations. > Perhaps: > > login (li) Connects and authenticates to remote server > logout (lo) Logs out from the remote server > config-show (csh) Show All Settings > config-get (cg) Show One Setting > config-set (cs) Change Setting > install (i) Install Package > upgrade (up) Upgrade Package > uninstall (u) Un-install Package > package (p) Build Package > package-info (pi) Show Package Info > package-list (pl) List Files in Package > package-validate (pv) Validate Package > cvstag (cvs) Set CVS Release Tag > run-tests (rt) Run Regression Tests > list-installed (l) List Installed Packages > shell-test (stest) Shell Script Test > remote-package-info (ri) Information About Remote Package > list-upgrades (lu) List Available Upgrades > list-remote-packages (lr) List Remote Packages > download (d) Download Package Good idea, I'll implement that. Thanks for the input so far, please keep bugging me about things you find. - Stig