Re: Installer problems

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Martin Jansen wrote: > On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:36:05 -0600 (CST), Brent Cook wrote: > > >Do you mind if I say I'm a little confused by these instructions? Is Pear > >not just a framework of nice PHP classes. What is there to compile, > >exactly? > > Stig Bakken and Tomas V.V. Cox are working on a great paket of > scripts that will come with your PHP distribution one day and > that will be automatically installed on your system during the > build process of PHP. With this scripts you can easily install > new PEAR packages on your system - just like you do it today > with RPM, DEB or something similar. > Or to draw a closer parallel, like the Perl CPAN installer? Good, I really like that one. I'm sure that distribution folks would also appreciate it if individual Pear modules installable by this tool were available at some time as plain tarballs too, like CPAN modules are (to make it easy to either use the Pear installer, or integrate into an existing package system). Still, beyond the installer, there isn't anything to compile yet, correct? I know that in the perl world, CPAN modules often come with a C version of certain functions for speed purposes. I did not find any C versions of Pear modules, though that's probably something you don't do unless really necessary. But for now, I think that I'm correct in seeing Pear as just a collection of nice PHP classes, like PHPLib or the api portion of PHP Groupware. OK,ok, very nice classes! - Brent