Re: [req] pear snapshots

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Martin Jansen wrote: > On Wed Jul 24, 2002 at 03:4941PM -0400, James E. Flemer wrote: > > It would make my life much easier if I could say: > > > > $ cd /usr/local/lib/php > > $ fetch -o - http://snaps.php.net/pear-latest.tar.gz | tar > > -zxf - > > Do you really think that this will stay viable when PEAR consists > of thousand of packages? I don't think I would like to download ~200MB > of PHP code just to get the latest snapshot of a specific package > ;-). Call me lazy, but cron jobs are easy, and cpu time (to build the snapshot) and bandwidth (to fetch it) are cheap. Anyway even when Pear is 200MB of PHP code, that should still be a pretty managable tar.gz (tar.bz2) considering the compression ratio on PHP code. =) I don't really need snapshots, but I *really* do want some way to update all of pear in under 200 keystrokes (without having to have PHP CLI installed). I just thought snapshots might be an easy way to do it, and might make it that much easier for new pear developers to get up to date. -James