Re: DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR and packages download default dir

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 19:31, Urs Gehrig wrote: > dear all > > i would like to ask two things: > > 1) DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR > i did <?php echo DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR; ?> and got "\" in return. is this a > system variable? i am asking because i did not find it while performing a > c:\>env command. It's defined by PHP, basically using #ifdef WIN32 :-) > 2) packages default storage dir > can i configure the default directory for storing packages downloaded via: > > c:\>pear download PEAR > > because in that case, the package will reamin like c:\>PEAR-0.11.tgz. but it > would be cool to have it in c:\php\pear\packages\PEAR-0.11.tgz. if it is not > configurable, it would be nice to have it ;) Good idea. Will add a download_dir parameter to PEAR_Config (defaulting to "."). > thanx, urs > > ps: sorry for asking all this; i am trying to understand why Installer.php > (it's a guess) does not work properly on win32; at least at my installation > ;) Don't be sorry, we need all the help we can get for making PEAR work properly on Windows. - Stig