new drush installs broken due to php.net moving to subversion

Patch submitted in http://drupal.org/node/875196

committed. we're going to have to issue new releases. what a drag.

thanks guys!!! I realize its a drag but thanks! :)

A work around for this is to use the PEAR installer to install Console_Table as released by PEAR before installing drush. "sudo pear install Console_Table" and it is done. This is also unlikely to break if PEAR ever switches to git or some other VCS.

In my cPanel installation on my shared host, I needed to install Console Table in the Pear Packages, then modify drush.inc to add line 13:
include('/home/username/php/Console/Table.php');

before anything was working. Tried all versions of code, up to and including HEAD of 07-Aug-2010.

Hope this points someone else in the right direction.

how long does a new release take? all new installs of the aegir hosting platform as well as any other code dependent on the current release of drush will break.

Drush does appear to report instructions for fixing the problem - it doesn't seem like it'd be too difficult for most Drush users to figure out until a release is posted. The maintainers said they're just backporting some critical patches before posting a release, so I'd expect one fairly soon.

FYI, I just issued a new release.

If you want drush to know when a new version of itself is available, see #425670: drush self update

Hey Moshe

Looks like this version of drush still has the same error, when you try to install aegir the two following error messages are received:

Drush command could not be completed.
An error occurred at function : drush_hosting_hosting_task

Let me know if there is something I can do differently.

Thanks

Jerry

Moshe, Looks like we're good with the latest fix to Drush, I was able to install Aegir 0.4 Alpha 8 without a problem. Great Work! - Jerry

Updated to drush 3.3 - still getting errors.
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:/var/www# drush updatedb -y
The following updates are pending:


Fatal error: Class 'Console_Table' not found in /var/drush/includes/drush.inc on line 988
Drush command could not be completed.         

delete includes/table.inc and then run a drush command. you have to run as a user that has write access to the drush files.

If it's supposed to be deleted, why is it still in the 3.3 release (or is that release older than this issue)?

You've got an empty file cached there from when the bug was still in the codebase. You could also delete all of your drush files and get a fresh copy of drush, and the problem would go away. Deleting just the cached table.inc file is a faster way to fix it, though.

Ah, got it. Thanks!

For all the newbs (like me 20m ago)...

On shared hosting machines, where you and your site don't have complete control/access over the entire machine/configuration, you may have to do additional steps for a complete and successful installation of Drush.

Drush, as does Drupal, runs on PHP (PHP has two versions that are popular now, v4 and v5). PHP is installed for you on hosted machines, but some common extensions may not be. PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) is a way to extend PHP abilities. In this case, Drush needs a "Console_Table" extension.

On Bluehost, using their cPanel, I scrolled to their "PHP PEAR Packages" section. When I clicked into that section, their cPanel did a quick diagnosis check to ensure everything was prepped for managing PEAR extensions. Once done, Bluehost gave me a form to "Install a PHP Extensions and Applications Package". I typed "Console_Table" and clicked "Install Now". This installed the Console_Table extension into my shared hosting configuration.

The last step was to follow post #5 from Onyx (above) where he told Drush where to find the Console_Table extension.

In my cPanel installation on my shared host, I needed to install Console Table in the Pear Packages, then modify drush.inc to add line 13:
include('/home/username/php/Console/Table.php');

After this, Drush worked for me.

p.s. This post will likely be obsolete when Drush gets repackaged. I just felt compelled to spell out this explanation for others in the meantime.