The InstallationController class has the API for installing PEARs, but it's not convenient for developers. Creating a special 'one-click' method for installing PEARs is possible, but I would like, first, to understand what the developers need. I can provide a selection of static methods for PEAR installation. The use of a message listener is not necessary - it was done for the GUI application and SITH system as the way to post errors back to the hosting application.
-- Lev
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Baessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: uima-dev@incubator.apache.org Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:35:27 +0100 Subject: Re: Pear installer API Adam Lally wrote: > +1 to having an easy way to install a PEAR file. I guess I always > thought we had that already in the InstallationController class. This > is the code you're referring to that's too complex and not well > documented? Yes that is the code, that I think nobody understands well. We can also try to cleanup this, but the main issue with that is, that the code use an own message listener and do not throw any exception in case of an error. So for an application it is hard to find out what really happens. So when we change that, I'm not sure what else we have to change in the Pear installer GUI. So my though was to provide a new static method for installing a pear file ... but I will check that again so see what we can reuse. > Maybe this can just be added as a static method on > InstallationController? And if the documentation on > InstallationController can be improved, by all means let's do that. > Yes in the documentation we have many ToDos. There is nothing in that tells the user that there is an API and how that can be used. -- Michael
