Re: Installing PEAR in Windows

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 19:27, Alan McFarlane wrote: > There is however only 166 packages at the latest count. And this increases on a weekly basis. At the moment it's an easy task to make a zip, how about next year? > It would be a very > easy task for a server to take the list of packages and produce a single > downloadable .zip/.tgz file containing everthing. In fact, you should be > able to write the code to perform this task in PEAR itself (and if not, why > not?!). > > I agree that it is convenient to download only the packages you need using > the installer, however when you have no access to cvs and the current > installer is apparently broken, producing a single downloadable appears to > make a lot of sense. As a temporary measure I think it's a good idea, I just think we're better off putting resources into fixing the installer, rather than trying to devise new workarounds for it - from what I can tell we're getting close to a working Windows installer. Jon > -- > Alan > > "Jon Wood" <jon@jellybob.co.uk> wrote in message > news:1049912286.1586.1.camel@bertha.2of3.co.uk... > > On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 19:12, Alan McFarlane wrote: > > > Yes I know this is topic that has seen frequent discussion, however I do > > > think it is about time that somebody would create a single .zip file > > > containing the complete PEAR installation. > > > > > The problem with that is that PEAR isn't something that can be packaged > > as a "complete" installation, since it's designed to install individual > > packages. > > > > Jon > > > This is something that could be done on a weekly or even nightly basis > by > > > the PEAR server, and would help us poor Windows users out tremendously. > > > > > > -- > > > Alan McFarlane > > > CEO On-Line Technology > > > > > > > > > > > > >