go-pear.phar works! In related news, PHP_Archive is now PHP 5.1.0+

Sunday, August 14. 2005

go-pear.phar works! In related news, PHP_Archive is now PHP 5.1.0+

Grab the latest go-pear.phar (600k) and start installing PEAR successfully on unix and windows!

After several weeks of wrangling with the differences in streams support between PHP 4.3, 5.0, and 5.1, Davey and I have decided to drop support for PHP versions earlier than 5.1. Normally, I am all in favor of supporting the earliest version possible, but in this case appearances were deceiving. Streams support is innovative and wonderful, but simply doesn't work consistently between OSes and across versions until PHP 5.1.

For instance, PHP 4.3 does not have support for url_stat() or opendir functionality. PHP 5.0 has a buggy stream_eof() implementation and so on and so on.

More importantly, the __HALT_COMPILER() directive is available in PHP 5.1, allowing full utilization of binary to compress files. This reduces go-pear.phar from 814k down to only 600k, a significant drop. In addition, the code is safer because all internal stat caching is performed in a private static class variable instead of a global variable. It's just good all around.

So, PHP_Archive 0.6.0 will have support for PHP 5.1.0b1 and newer - and it is fabulous!

A big thanks to Wez and Sara for coding and maintaining streams. An even bigger thanks to the PHP crew for developing 5.1. Even with all of the forced changes in references, the work required to get code up to snuff is far outweighed by the rewards. I can't wait to see 5.1 stable out there.

Posted by Greg Beaver in PEAR at 00:29 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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Sadly though, this will really limit who is able to use this library.

#1 Stan (Homepage) on 2005-08-14 02:19 (Reply)

How will it limit people who can use this library ?

The fact that it runs on PHP 5.1 ?

The current way is to use http://go-pear.org (just execute the script) to get started.

#1.1 Arnaud on 2005-08-17 00:08 (Reply)

Well, the issue is for those, the majority out there, who will not be running their own boxes and more then likely not have PHP 5.1.0 available to them. A bulk of hosting companies haven't made the move to 5.0 yet and 5.1.0 is pretty far off the map.

#1.1.1 Stan (Homepage) on 2005-08-17 14:38 (Reply)

actually PHP 5.1RC1 is due out this week.

#1.1.1.1 Greg Beaver (Homepage) on 2005-08-17 16:36 (Reply)

Greg,
Maybe so, but the fact that majoritavely speaking web hosts (sadly) have not upgraded. If this were not the case, this news about PHP_Archive would be great, but it is the case and unless I am completely in the dark, the PEAR userbase is not large enough to compel the vast number of web hosts out there to get their act together and upgrade.

#1.1.1.1.1 Stan (Homepage) on 2005-08-17 16:39 (Reply)

Well of course they haven't, it is not even stable yet

. The fact is that PHP_Archive is a PHP 5.1+ technology and as such will be available to anyone who installs it. Plus, you can install and manage a remote PEAR installation with PEAR 1.4+ quite easily, making your remove webhost's PHP version irrelevant

#1.1.1.1.1.1 Greg Beaver (Homepage) on 2005-08-18 04:03 (Reply)

Just used it on windows, the file selection dialog popping up is nice !

It works like a charm

#2 Arnaud on 2005-08-17 00:36 (Reply)

One note though, after installing it under windows running the command "pear" gives an error.

'"c:\php"' n'est pas reconnu en tant que commande interne

If I edit pear.bat and write "%PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN%\php.exe" at the bottom of the file things work fine.

That's under XP, PHP lives under c:\php.

#3 Arnaud on 2005-08-17 00:43 (Reply)

Thanks for this fix.

However I have one remaining problem, I have no pear.bat file in the directory structure anywhere.

I do have peardev.bat and pecl.bat, pear.bat_old and the go-pear.bat file but even though the go-pear gave a message to the console saying it had backed up the pear.bat and pear.bat was now 'at my service'....... it is not?

Have things change? Is one of the other .bat files the new pear.bat?

Where do I go from here?

Oh OS = Win XP SP2 &
PHP 5.2.0 (cli) (built: Nov 2 2006 11:57:36)
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies

Thanks
Chris

#4 Chris on 2007-02-27 05:44 (Reply)

OK, I sorted it by renaming the pear.bat_old and using that (right or wrong?).

By the way Greg,

This phar contains a alpha version of PEAR 1.4.0a13 which caused me about 5 (newbie) hours of hassle trying to upgrade it. It just would not play along with the upgrade command for some reason.
Eventually I found the one page that helped which I will put here so the next newbie wont loose quite so much time and hair
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.pear.qa/month=20050801/page=8

Hope this helps somebody.

#4.1 Chris on 2007-02-28 04:33 (Reply)

Hi Chris,

This is a *really* old blog entry. Official .phars are available at:

http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
http://pear.php.net/install-pear-nozlib.phar

Currently, these contain PEAR version 1.5.0 and the latest versions of everything it depends on.

#4.1.1 Greg Beaver (Homepage) on 2007-02-28 11:58 (Reply)

Sorry for wasting your time, and mine come to that.

#5 Chris on 2007-03-01 03:58 (Reply)

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