Re: Windows install: ?

We all know how much hassle it is trying to get PEAR to work under Windows at the moment, and work is being done to try and fix it, but throwing insults at the people trying to fix it as volunteers is not going to get it done any quicker. PEAR is being supported by the PHP team, but most of the core team that is working on PEAR uses a unix variant for their development, which makes it harder to fix the Windows version. Jon On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 01:28, Kevin wrote: > I downloaded PHP 4.3.2RC1 and installed it thinking I would get an installed > PEAR, nope, NaN, no such luck. The go-pear.bat worked and zazam I thought I > had PEAR, nope, NaN, SOL. There in the PHP directory was that ugly pear.bat > file waiting to burn up my afternoon trying to figure out what bin_dir means > when there is no binary files anywhere to be found, MAYBE this is where the > php scripts are located, who knows because the ugly pear.bat gives me no > clues and being a clue-less windows user who cares. > > After figuring out was needed I tried to run pear, again the ugly pear.bat > got me, seems it is suppose to run? The last time I spent several hours > getting this to work there was a script directory with a pear.in script in > it, that was the script the ugly pear.bat was running. Since there was no > script directory only a pear.php file I tried that and now I have pear list > from the command prompt returning to the command prompt without any > error..... or list. > > Would it hurt anyone to just post a message saying Windows user not welcome? > Or how about just letting us know that the PHP team is NOT supporting PEAR > period! > > Again, the concept is great but somehow, sometime, somebody has to make this > a no-brainer, 96% of the desk-tops are windows based. > > >