Re: PEAR on Windows

Stig S. Bakken wrote:

On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 10:19, Martin Jansen wrote:

On Wed Jul 03, 2002 at 11:3839PM +0200, Jonas Koch Bentzen wrote:

Martin Jansen skrev:

On Wed Jul 03, 2002 at 08:3928PM +0200, Jonas Koch Bentzen wrote:

With PHP 4.2.1, does PEAR work out of the box on Windows *without* the user having to add the PEAR directory to his/her include_path as described on http://pear.php.net/manual/en/faq.windows.php ? I'm sorry I can't test this myself - I'm a Linux user.

The path is *not* added automatically. (At least that's what happened when I installed the binary package on my windows box here.)

Is there any way we could make it do that? The PHP binary must know where the base php directory is, and thus where php/pear is, right?

I don't know much about the internals of PHP's build system, but I think that adding the PEAR directory to include_path during installation is more a job for the guys on php-dev@lists.php.net. Can you post your proposal there and here what they think?

Since this is a Windows issue, it should be done in the Windows installer IMHO. It would make my life and go-pear's job a lot easier too. :-P - Stig

I had only one real issue, in pear.in there is @include_path@ and @pear_version@. I am assuming that these get replace during install on linux. Couldn't go-pear do the same for windows, or can we just get rid of them. -c inidir works from pear.bat, and how important is the version anyway ;). Shane