[wp-testers] a script to auto-download

[Andrew McCloud]

Well, what about extracting a basic .tar file? Yes it lacks  
compression, but it can be accomplished on any setup.
On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Andy Holtzmann wrote:

> Right, they talked about that. there are two different way to unzip  
> though; via server OS or via PHP functions. this is just a auto  
> download. it merely places the files. here look at it
> Matt wrote:
>> Such auto-download/install scripts don't usually work on all  
>> (most?) server
>> setups...
>>
>> On Nov 14, 2007 9:09 PM, Andy Holtzmann <designdroide at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> * Script to:
>>> - download the .zip / tar.gz from a known server directly to the  
>>> server
>>> where the script is running.
>>> - extract the .zip / tar.gz archive directly on the server
>>>
>>> Basically what I am suggesting is that this be offered as a alt to
>>> downloading lasest.zip and unarchiving then uploading. I found an
>>> example script( i actually took the section above from the  
>>> example) that
>>> worked flawlessly. it is open source so I do believe we could  
>>> modify it
>>> to work with WP
>>>
>>> Think about it: WP installed in under three minutes.
>>>
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