Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 / TODO-4.1.txt From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 04/19/01

At 08:03 AM 4/19/2001 -0400, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote:
>[Andi Gutmans <andi <email protected>>]
> > At 06:53 PM 4/18/2001 -0400, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote:
> >
> > >*BLAM*
> > >
> > >That's the sound of someone shooting himself in the foot. The PEAR
> > >installer needs the XML extension. :-)
> >
> > What do you mean? Has work started on this already?
> > I'm not quite sure what you mean by the PEAR installer but I think we
> > should discuss the util we would need to list/fetch/build C extensions
> > from the PEAR repository on php-dev <email protected>
> > I think it's a waste of time to decide right now what to remove
> > instead of trying to finalizing this utility. Once we see how well it
> > works it'll be time to start thinking of what extensions to remove. I
> > think it's just putting energy in the wrong place right now :)
>
>You don't read php-cvs anymore do you Andi? :-)

I do but I'm senile :)

>If you configure the CGI and do "make install", you'll have a
>command-line utility written in PHP called "pear" that can do two
>things: make a package tarball, and install a tarball. It currently
>only support "pure PHP" packages. How to test it:
>
>$ cvs co pear/HTTP
>$ cd pear/HTTP
>$ pear package package.xml
>(this will give you a file called HTTP-1.0.tgz)
>$ pear install HTTP-1.0.tgz

OK I definitely missed that one.

>There's a lot of stuff missing from the installer still, but that'll
>be added in time. It is also UNIX-only right now. Since I'm not a
>Windows user myself, I totally depend on the help of some Windows
>people to make it work in Windows.
>
>The reason I joined the "what extensions to keep" discussion is that I
>think it (the discussion) is going to take some time. :-)

Yeah but I just thought it'd be better to focus people's energy on getting
it to work :)

Andi 

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