Install documentation incorrect/incomplete

[anonymous]

The install documentation at  http://phing.info/docs/guide/stable/chapters/Setup.html does not give enough information to easily install phing.

• The pear command "pear install phing-2.0.0b1-pear.tar.gz" does not work.

• When installed, the pear package has a directory called 'bin' but no phing command. There's a phing.php command, which calls require_once 'phing/Phing.php however there is no subdirectory called 'phing' within the distribution.

Presumably, this requires the distro to be placed in a subdirectory called 'phing' on the include-path. This does not appear to be documented.

Overall, installation is an overly-manual process which requires a good level of PHP knowledge. This will be a barrier to widespread take-up of Phing.

[mrook]

You are right, the instructions in that part of the documentation are old (and I will update them), from your description it sounds like you installed an old version of Phing?

Installing Phing via PEAR is a breeze, see  http://phing.info/trac/wiki/Users/Download for details.

[mrook]

(In [841]) Refs #537 - fix/rework installation documentation