Re: pear installer

Quoting Kendrick Vargas <ken@hudat.com>: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > > On Tue, 09 Jan 2001, Richard Heyes wrote: > > > > > > The phkg file is just a tar.gz file (any better extension names? :-). > > > > > > .pear ?? > > > > Sounds good to me. > > Ummm... why confuse things by inventing extensions for media types that > allready exist? That's just gonna create confusion later when things won't > need to be confused. Someone will look at a .pear file and say "damnit, I > wonder what kinda file this is" instead of simply untarring/zipping it. I agree. The logic could easily be built into the installer to validate that it is in fact a valid PEAR installation package, and not confuse the user. After all, this logic has to be built in _anyway_ - what stops a rogue .pear file from coming along by mistake? -- Anil Madhavapeddy, <anil@recoil.org>