Re: PEAR in PHP 4.3.0

On Sat Sep 28, 2002 at 03:0346PM +0200, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:31:41 +0200 > Martin Jansen <mj@php.net> wrote: > > > After having read the bug report I guess that this might be a proper > > solution. Did you ever get any reply from someone at php-dev > > concerning this? Could perhaps other people that are having the same > > problems try the solution described in Urs' bug report and give some > > feedback. > > This solution solve the pear/php path, but, imho, I do not like to see hard coded default path, > this is always sources of problems :-). A clean and 'easy to configure' way is the use of > REG file on windows 2k/XP and certainly for win98/SE/ME. A reg file provides a fast and customisable > (from a make, go-pear, php scripts, or manually) system to set permanent environment vars. I don't have a proper Windows environment to test PEAR with, so it would be great if some of you work out a solution and implement it :). > Theses env vars should the usual we can set using go-pear. The main problem on win32 platform > is most of users just download the zip archive and uncompress it under their folder. A simple README > for both PHP & PEAR telling how to set up the needed env vars will solve most of problems. But will they read that file? IMO they will spam pear-general with support questions ;-). BTW: Please configure your mail client to wrap lines properly. Reading messages containing lines with more than 80 characters sucks a lot. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/