Re: [req] pear snapshots

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, James E. Flemer wrote: > I think it would be nice if there were pear snapshots > available. Considering the problems with working from a > checked out pear directory, snapshots would make things > much easier. The snapshots could either include the > standard (cvs: php4/pear/*) packages, or just be an overlay > using just the pear repository (cvs: pear/*). > > 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 > - > > And perhaps someday one might even be able to say: > > $ cd /usr/local/lib/php > $ fetch -o - http://snaps.php.net/pear-STABLE-latest.tar.gz | \ > tar -zxf - > > Is anyone familiar with how (where) the php4 snaps are > created and such? Perhaps there could be a similar cron job > on the same box that would make pear snaps. Would it be > possible for pear snaps to go on snaps.php.net? Releasing snapshots is against the whole idea of splitting stuff into smaller packages. It has been suggested before, and anyone is free to release snapshots from their own site, but there will not be snapshots on pear.php.net. I'll implement "pear upgrade-all" instead. - Stig