Re: Re: PHAR archives

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 16:15 -0500, Greg Beaver wrote: > if the answer is "no" to either, then you should instead use a phar > archive. However, this begs another question: > Due to the bandwidth conditions in Africa, I doubt that there is much scope for either, also our users generally want something that Just Works (TM) without the complexity of cli or anything else. Ours is free software (soft funded) e-learning (amongst others) system for the educational sector, so we have little time for helping out our users with "It says I need Text_Wiki, what is that?" kind of questions. > 3) do all of your users have PHP 5.1.0 or newer? Version 2 of our framework "requires" (but not really - sssshhh) PHP5.1.0 or above, so yes. > The gnope installer for PHP-GTK2 (http://www.gnope.org) uses a modified > version of the make-installpear-nozlib-phar.php (phew) script available > in CVS of pear-core/ to create a custom phar for installation. > cool. > The script may need some updating to match the parameter order of the > current PHP_Archive, I have to check that some time soon, but > instructions are available inside the file for setting it up, and also > inside README.RELEASING inside pear-core/ > Sure, I am sure that one of my guys will be able to contribute some patches as well if necessary! We are all about community. > This should get you started, ask here for further questions. Thanks! I really appreciate all the help! --Paul