[TYPO3-ect] tx_pear and windows

[Andreas Otto]

Hi Elmar,

Elmar Hinz wrote:

> that is a good question. We don't want to exclude windows users from all
> extensions based on pear.
> 
> PEAR is not a TYPO3 invention. How does it normally work on windows if not
> with mv, wget? I bet there is an existing solution.

Maybe the documentation on pear.php.net gives you some hints. Just a quote
from the manual [1]:

Windows

After you have downloaded and installed PHP, you have to manually execute
the batch file located in e.g. c:\php\go-pear.bat. The setup will ask you
some questions and afterwards the PEAR Package Manager will be installed in
the path, which you have specified during installation. Finally you have to
add that installation path to your PATH environment. Either do this
manually (Start > Control Panel > System > Environment) or run
(double-click) the newly generated PEAR_ENV.reg that's now found in the PHP
source directory. After that you can access the PEAR Package Manager by
running the command pear in a Windows Command Prompt. 

To update your PEAR installation from go-pear.org, request
http://go-pear.org/ in your browser and save the output to a local file
go-pear.php. You can then run 
php go-pear.php
      

in a Windows Command Prompt to start the update process.

[1]<http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.getting.php>


Cheers,
Andreas