I am no longer able to re-install Symfony via PEAR today - php.exe would consume 25% CPU (and more and more memory) while spinning in place forever (I aborted after 30 minutes). I suspect it had something to do with yesterday’s reinstallation of PHP 5.2.5 over XAMPP 1.6.4.
Funny thing is, I installed XAMPP 1.6.5 which supposedly came with PHP 5.2.5, but the CLI problem resurfaced. I had to manually copy over php\ext\php_mysqli.dll (and NOT mysqli_php.dll) from yesterday’s PHP 5.2.5 download. Looks like the version of PHP that comes with XAMPP 1.6.5 is not exactly pristine.
Unfortunately as of now neither PHP 5.2.4 nor 5.2.5 allows me to install Symfony via PEAR.
[Update @ 2007-12-25T23:40-8:00] I give on PEAR Symfony. Sandbox Symfony, here I come.
