[dev] Installation Thoughts

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>> I haven't run it myself yet, but this looks pretty awesome. We  
>> might want to add the following:
>> - Support installing both into system-wide and local pear
>
> I thought I had mentioned this in my original message.  Maybe not.
>
> Anyway... yes, this is obviously something to support.  Plan on  
> adding Horde_Argv to the phar package so that this can all be done  
> via the command line also.
>
>> - Ask for building pecl packages too
>
> Yes.  This was the original plan.  After initial installation, there  
> would be prompts as to which PECL packages to install.
>
> Essentially, my initial plan was simply to have the script act as an  
> automated way of "reading" through the docs/INSTALL file from top to  
> bottom.
>
>> - Filter pear output to only show important messages  
>> (http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=18461)
>
> I don't want to rewrite PEAR (ugh)... but I wonder how much of this  
> could be done by directly interfacing with the PEAR libraries.  We  
> already do this for horde-components stuff.  I think this  
> functionality exists in the PEAR code - its just not available  
> through the CLI.  Has the benefit of working on existing  
> installations without having to worry about patches accepted upstream.

I was thinking something simpler, filtering the output of the pear installer.
-- 
Jan Schneider
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