Description: ------------ 1) A fresh install of PHP-5.2.0, (the latest "stable" release, no?) as you may know, has a corrupted go-pear.phar file (because of a fault in the automated build process) which is a known bug and took an hour of attempted debugging googling to find. A mention of the ugly workaround for this here would have been helpful. 2) also said PHP-5.2.0 installation provides not a "pear.bat" file but a "pear.bat_old" file, rendering the talk of the pear cli on the next page useless. There is no mention of why this was renamed but I assume there is some reason. I renamed pear.bat_old pear.bat which seems to have fixed this for now but I await the inevitale goblins. A mention of this workaround might be in order? Test script: --------------- C:\PHP>pear 'pear' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\PHP> Expected result: ---------------- # invoke "pear.bat" batch file Actual result: -------------- 'pear' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Thanks for the understanding. In the interim, while we wait for 5.2.1, would it not be prudent to mention this issue here? Is it that difficult to add a little sidebar to the documentation? Despite the fact that this is a problem for the PHP team and not the PEAR team, this site is where people go for PEAR documentation for PEAR installation. One of the precepts of opensource software is that it acknowledges its known issues, as opposed to trying to bury them, right? Ok, at risk of trolling i will now rest my case. I assume you have good reasons for whatever your resolution of the issue.