Re: What's up with pear?

> I think I have to clear some details, before this treat become a flame. It > was not in my intension to discard the hard work of a lot of people out > there, contributing to PEAR just because I'm to stupid to get this shit to > work. I have a huge respect on people spending their valuable time and > knowledge, to give such little idiots like me the possibility to care about > something else then DB-abstraction. However, I'm sorry if someone got me > wrong. I just had no sleep tonight. So to be a little more constructive, I > try to tell you what problems I had. Thx. > [go-pear from 4.3; checksum error] > [go-pear from go-pear.org; checksum error] That means, that a downloaded package is corrupt. Can you tell me which one? (Which are the last lines go-pear outputs) > [go-pear (web); checksum error] Again this is no error related to go-pear directly, so diffrent go-pear versions will not change a thing. > Unfortunately > go-pear deleted all the downloaded packets from the tmp-dir when the error > occurs and the script has finished. I will try to "fix" that, when I have time to do it. This allready is on my long-term TODO-list. > OK no prob, I thought and remembered an old pear-backup I made one or two > weeks ago. So I restored my old version into my pear-dir and opened the > webinstaller. But this webinstaller, that worked before my last backup, did > not this time. It stops with a timeout in the PEAR-class and XML_RPC. No > chance today. No idea why this happens, I would normally say "please upgrade your PEAR version with go-pear", but this wouldn't help here, I guess ;-) > After this try I downloaded every single class of the > base-pear-packet from pear.php.net and "installed" it manually. And jupie, > the webinstaller had no more timeout and started up as expected. But shit, I > don't know why, webinstall didn't realize the existing packets and shows off > as if my whole pear-dir is empty. Thats because packages are registered after installation. You didn't do this registration, so this explains your prob here. > As I said in my last post, download-time > is no problem and decided to download all the packets again. After minutes > of waiting my connection shows some download activity. After a while, the > download stopped as known but nothing happened. The green plus-sign still > laughing in my face. Looking in my pear-dir also shows, that no packet has > been installed. AAARGGGHHH- Now I'm becoming a little nervous. This one is really strange. Never heared of such a problem before, might be a temprary problem with pear.php.net? > [feeling sick about the current situation] You can trust me, we want a running PEAR on windows too. Statements like "Its important for the future of PEAR to have windows support" just do not help at all, cause we now this too. I, as an example, am frustrated too, cause this windows problem strike us again and again and I spend hours to hunt those issues, but it doesn't work correctly after all. It would be great, if you could provide the output of go-pear so that I am able to see where exactly the problem occurs. Christian Dickmann