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Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 17:36:05 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Disable PEAR by default
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 02.02.2019 at 16:32, Lester Caine wrote:

> On 02/02/2019 14:28, Peter Kokot wrote:
>
>> About PECL, then I assume we keep it as is for this period also.
>> Unclear, required to install PEAR to be able to run the pecl command,
>> and optionally moving this part elsewhere out of the PHP. Specially,
>> to package maintainers (Linux distros), another repository/project out
>> of the scope of the PHP internals etc.
> 
> I have to admit that since nowadays I only install PHP via OpenSUSE,
> what is in core is not actually relevant to me directly since even the
> packages that HAVE been dropped from core are still fully supported! BUT
> many of the people I am supporting are only using Windows so it is nice
> that there is a tidy path for 'package management'. That has included
> adding PECL packages in recent years and which was still working nicely.
> Those people have not upgraded from PHP5 for many reasons and having to
> address additional changes to a stable windows base is just more
> blockers to bringing the over 70% of sites that are still on PHP5
> forward to PHP7.

To my knowledge, the official php.net Windows binaries do not contain
support for PECL/PEAR, anyway.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker