Re: Package Bundles

On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 20:11, Christian Dickmann wrote: > Hi, > > I want to get PEAR Webinstaller working before 4.3.0 is released > and have a question: > Webinstallers goal is to be a package which installs PEAR on every > web environment (mass hosting for example) out-of-the-box. > You just extract the files from the package and you are ready to > launch the package manager. > > PEAR_Frontend_Web is my package, but to be an out-of-the-box > tool, I need to bundle the required depending packages. > Auto resolving deps is not possible, since there is no running PEAR, > you have the chicken-egg-problem ... > So I would like to see an easy way to bundle packages and release > this bundle. > > Thoughts? Go-pear solves the chicken-and-egg problem by manually downloading enough files (from cvs.php.net) to untar the PEAR package. You could take a look at it (pearweb/public_html/go-pear in CVS) and see if there's anything you can use there. If the go-pear code is useful to you, I should clean it up and making it a bit more "re-use friendly". Breaking it up into components is kinda against the entire idea though. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/ssb