Where did PEAR go???

[Gerard Samuel]

Thierry Thomas wrote:

>Le Mar  2 sep 03 à  9:05:11 +0200, Gerard Samuel <gsam at trini0.org>
> écrivait :
>  
>
>>Roman Neuhauser wrote:
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>>>  there is a better way: install the required pear-* packages.
>>>  the bootstrap dir is a hack for the ports system to break out of
>>>  circular dependencies.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Please excuse my lack of knowledge in this area.
>>But PEAR.php comes with the default php install.
>>Thats all the script (Chora/Horde) needed.  Whats the purpose of 
>>installing pear-* packages???
>>    
>>
>
>When you install php4, you only get the PEAR's bootstrap part. Horde and
>other applications require several other packages (pear-Date, pear-Log,
>pear-DB, etc.).
>
>Regards,
>
Thanks for the heads up.  But I wonder why Chora hasn't complained as 
yet about missing pear-* packages.
Maybe it doesn't need them....