Re: Installer problems

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:14:49 -0600 (CST), Brent Cook wrote: >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). You can already download tarballs from pear.php.net. Simply go to http://pear.php.net/?devme - this site will place a cookie on your system that will enable you the alpha version of the site, which allows tarball downloading. >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. Right now there is no C code in PEAR, but this can change in the future. If one wants to write (parts of) his PEAR code in C for speed purpose, he can do so. - Martin -- Martin Jansen, <mail@martin-jansen.de> http://www.martin-jansen.de/