Re: What's up with pear?

Am Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:17:05 +0100 schrieb "Till Dawn" <naturalkiller@gmx.net>: > What the hell is wrong with PEAR? The current situation on PEAR is pissing > me off. That pear is not included in PHP anymore might be acceptable, if > there would be another possibility to get it on a normal way, for a > windows-user. But there is none. Not even a base-packet to download. Only > that goddamn go-pear is offered for installing and not even this is included > in the actual PHP-release. Happily announcing the possibility to use it with > lynx on your *nix. Fuck Lynx. This peace of grap is not working on windows, > neither as command-line nor in my browser. Just download the ZIP-archive for Windows, the base package is included there. Fuck Lynx? Certainly you don´t care about website accessibility (and in addition have very weird sexual preferences), otherwise you wouldn´t want to fuck Lynx. > How could you ever think about > comparing yourself with CPAN? This ignorance to exclude all windows-users > until you found a way to get your installer to work can only be a joke. But > not enough. Your website, where the packets are listed is not only terrible > to navigate, it's also deadly slow, so that for me there is no practical way > to get an actual PEAR-release. No-one will object if you generously offer a server to mirror the website and pay for the traffic. This is free software. Be thankful it exists and that you may use it. If you want greater download speed, mirror the site and pay for the traffic. I´d like to note I´ve never had speed problems with the PEAR site. > Where is the problem to offer a PEAR-packet > to download? If you like to, I would even get it as tar.bz! The answer, that > pear becomes tooooo big, is not worth to think about. We're living in the > age of DSL! And what DSL user will pay for the traffic? You? > Does Mandrake stops download of their distribution, because it's > becoming to big? Huhu, don't break your head on someneelse's brain, I need > PEAR, and I would even download it if its 100GB big. But what? Im only using > windows. Im not even worth, that you read this message. Just keep sitting in > front off your favorit shell and wait for the Linux world-domination. Good > luck AFAIK, Mandrake is broke. So much for big unpaid downloads. IMHO, the problem is not that you´re using Windows, the problem is you´re to dumb to use it properly (both Windows and PEAR). If you want absolute comfort, if you just want to point-and-click and then PEAR is there for you, pay for it or shut up. In the meantime, you better read some books on basic computer usage. Installing PEAR packages is really a matter of copying some files. Regards, Markus -- *21st Media* | Consulting, Konzeption, Produktion für die Bereiche: Markus Wolff | Internet, Intranet, eCommerce, Content Management, Hamburg,Germany | Softwareentwicklung, 3D-Animation, Videostreaming http://21st.de | Tel. [+49](0)40/6887949-0, Fax: [+49](0)40/6887949-1