Re: PEAR organization best practice - have files, will install?

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 06:50:17 -0600, Bryan Henry wrote: >I have just upgraded PHP to the latest CGI version 4.1.2 using >the windows .zip package.(on Apache 2.0.28 Win32) I have also >attained the complete PEAR repository through CVS. > >My question is: It is best practice to drop the complete >repository I got through CVS on top of my PHP/PEAR directory? For now I suggest to work with two different directories: One directory contains the code that comes with the PHP distribution and the other one contains the code from PEAR CVS. When the installer code for Windows works stable, you can install from PEAR without having to check out the sources from CVS. >With updated versions found in /PEAR , won't combining this with >the files already found in PHP/PEAR overwrite already stable code >with more recent versions? There are some packages in /pear that are not recent in comparison to the same code in /php/pear (DB e.g.). - Martin -- Martin Jansen, <mail@martin-jansen.de> http://www.martin-jansen.de/