Re: PEAR Packages Distributed with PHP

true about web hosting, but you can include PEAR with your application's libraries in that case. Anyway, I just installed PHP 4.2.2, which comes with PEAR, but the distribution isn't quite the latest stable version. I used PEAR's packege manager to download the Auth module only to find out that my DB module isn't up to date. My recomendation is to download every module using PEAR's package manager from scratch. "Jonas Koch Bentzen" <test@understroem.dk> wrote in message news:3D491293.70307@understroem.dk... > Martin Jansen skrev: > > > > From PHP 4.3.0 there will be no PEAR packages bundled with PHP > > anymore. They can be installed via the PEAR infrastructure (which will > > come with PHP) then. > > Sorry for asking, but if the intention of PEAR DB was to provide PHP > programmers with a common database API (equivalent to Java's JDBC, > Perl's DBI, etc.), how is that going to happen if PEAR DB isn't even > included in the PHP distribution? Sure, you can install it using the > PEAR infrastructure, but the result of PEAR DB not being included with > PHP will be that a lot of web hosting companies won't install it, and > that means that you can't distribute open source programs that use PEAR > DB and know for sure they'll work. >