Re: Re: [pear-webmaster] Re: Help with installing PEAR

Greg Beaver wrote:

Anatoly Techtonik wrote:

As for the .exe installer, that would be great. I unfortunately do not have the cash to buy the tools and the time to learn how to use them. PHP is free and easy to learn.

FYI, MS published windows installer sources on SF. Also there is freeware NSIS installer from NULLSOFT (winamp team).

Thanks. I downloaded the nullsoft installer a long time ago, but have not had any time to learn its internals, which are by no means simple.

Anatoly, Don't complain about us not having a windows installer. Ideally, we should have a windows installer that includes PEAR_Frontend_Gtk, but we don't. Also, why should we be so nice to people if not even PHP has a good installer? (I know there's one for the CGI version, which is fine and good to an extent - but I use apache2.) If someone were so kind as to create an installer for us and to write a brief step-by-step process how to package a new release, that would be cool. But don't forget that the only thing we would be installing is the basic pack - what go-pear installs. We don't want to have to change the pack every time a new release happens. That's one major difference between us and traditional software companies. They release their stuff in one shot, then wait to update the components until there's enough stacked up to make a new version worth their while. I suppose it's partly because of the hassle required when you have to update the install scripts, etc. Greg, you've got a lot of things going, and at the moment so do I. Else I'd be very happy to help set up an installer (which would require I dig into the internals of some installer, as I wouldn't be able to set it up with my current knowledge). But as 1.4.0 is coming out soon (hopefully this year ;), it probably wouldn't make sense to create the installer until then. Klaus