On Thursday, June 19, 2003 8:42, Wez Furlong wrote:

> When I get a little more time (in about 2 months!) I will be completing the
> work that I started on the .MSI installer generator for PHP.

> This will generate an installer for the PHP distribution (including PEAR)
> based on the .zip binary distros cooked by the snaps machine and meta data
> from the source tree.

> One of the things that should be possible is generating additional .MSI
> files for PECL packages. From the example below, the 'peclfoo' package would
> be generated as 'peclfoo-3.1.2-<STATE>.msi'.

> Since .msi is "equivalent" to .rpm, we would then have the benefits of a
> system supported package manager; the main thing that I can think of is that
> it will handle upgrading extensions that are in use (if the user has enough
> privileges) by being able to stop the web server while it updates the file,
> or perhaps scheduling a restart if that is required.

Could this .msi generator be integrated into the pear cmd? A "pear
makemsi" command would be cool.

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 Tomas V.V.Cox                          mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]



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