PEAR / include path

[This followup was posted to php.pear.general and a copy was sent to the cited author.] Hi, I am currently starting to use PEAR and wonder a little bit about how the directories ar set up. In the PHP.INI my include path looks like this: include_path = ".;C:\PHPLIB" Then I dropped the PEAR-folder into C:\PHPLIB. So now you find PEAR.php under C:\PHPLIB\PEAR\PEAR.php. Then I started to write my first script: <head> <title>Test</title> </head> <body> <?php require_once('PEAR/PEAR.php'); require_once('PEAR/System.php'); echo "Hello\n"; ?> </body> </html> This gives me an error saying: Fatal error: Failed opening required 'PEAR.php' (include_path='.;C: \PHPLIB') in C:\PHPLIB\PEAR\Console\Getopt.php on line 21 To solve the problem I have to put the PEAR-Folder in the include_path of my php.ini. I really wonder, why PEAR is designed in a way, that a file in a subfolder expects PEAR.php there and not on PEAR/PEAR.php. When I look into the PEAR-folder I find files with names as simple as that: DB.php. This means, I cannot install another library which itself also has a file called DB.php and put it in the include_path of my php.ini because then I have to wonder which file will be included. I would recommend to change the directory-structure of PEAR to avoid this problem. Regards Thomas