[wp-testers] a script to auto-download

[Andy Holtzmann]

well Wp is released in .zip and .tar.gz compression and the main purpose 
is to only have to ftp the the single script that will then order the 
.zip/.tar.gz to you server. and then expand it for you. I think above 
all else it save so much time.
Andrew McCloud wrote:
> 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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