Okay, one problem seems to be solved: go-pear supports Windows now. Download http://pear.php.net/go-pear and do "php -q go-pear".
Next issue is prebuilt extensions. I really want to have package signatures (with pgp/gpg) before going there, but again I'm not sure what the most feasible approach would be on Windows. Anyway, here's what I have in mind: Today packages have a layout like this: package.xml pkg-version/file1 pkg-version/file2 pkg-version/file3 ... During "pear package", the package.xml file is re-created including md5 checksums of all the files. By just adding a package.sig file during packaging that contains package.xml's signature, the entire package is in practice signed. By default, the pear installer should only install prebuilt extensions signed by a trusted key (we have to bootstrap this trust network somehow too). As an option, you may add trusted keys or disable the signing requirement for prebuild extensions and pre/post install/uninstall scripts. Some advice on how to verify pgp signatures on Windows would be appreciated though. :-) - Stig On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 22:05, Shane Caraveo wrote: > It's a tough one :) > Well, being able to build like on unix shouldn't be too hard to do, just > have to call nmake on the dsp, but that wont work for the vast majority > of users. Someone needs to provide prebuilt extensions that can be > downloaded via pear, and unfortunately, I don't see any way other than > having a build per version of PHP. So the built extensions would have > to have a filename like: extname-phpversion-extversion.zip. Another > idea would be to have the extensions built for windows on the server > side, and cached if one was already built. > > Shane > > Stig S. Bakken wrote: > > You tell me :) We currently have no nice way of bootstrapping PEAR on > > Windows like we have on Unix (with "make install-pear-installer" and > > go-pear). What would be the most sensible way of giving Windows users > > something ala go-pear? > > > > - Stig > > > > On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 18:49, Shane Caraveo wrote: > > > >>Hmm, what is happening for win32? > >> > >>Stig S. Bakken wrote: > >> > With the latest PEAR installer (version 0.90), PECL extensions are now > >> > built and installed during "pear install/upgrade" on Unix systems. > >> > > >> > First: upgrade PEAR to 0.9 with "pear upgrade PEAR". > >> > > >> > If you have the xmms libraries and php_gtk installed, you can see it in > >> > action by doing simply "pear install xmms". The output is like this: > >> > > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- Stig Sæther Bakken, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/ssb -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
