easy install from PEAR channel

[cyberwolf]

It would be nice if this tool could be very easily installed on a new server, for example from a PEAR channel.

[nicjansma]

Sorry it's taken me so long to respond to this.

I'm not sure the script is suitable for PEAR. There are several places in the script that are TODOs -- mostly configuration options such as your DB login, but also an important section regarding dropping/readding INDEXes and ENUM support. The script source / comments document this pretty well, but as a PEAR module, I would need to add interfaces for the configuration, to hook into the script to add support for dropping/readding INDEXes, and the other TODOs

As a PEAR module, it would also highly discourage folks from looking at the source code, which I think is undesirable as you should really understand what you're going to run before making such a drastic change on your database.

Were there other reasons that you thought it would be well suited as a PEAR module?