[dev] Installation Thoughts

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> 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.

I'm not a big fan of using things regexs to filter non-structured data.

The other advantage of using the libraries directly is that we can  
possibly do some of the things that we are limited to otherwise (i.e.  
completely skip pecl-like modules during the initial install).  I  
could see a script doing something like using the library to grab the  
list of modules to install, filtering this list, and then passing in  
this list as the definitive list of modules to install (i.e. install  
with no -a).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]