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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with
 composer/pickle
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 04/09/2016 09:38, Tony Marston wrote:
>> A1) A command-line package management tool for installing and 
>> updating packages of PHP code over the Internet.
>
> Incorrect. There is a web interface which I use EXCLUSIVELY to 
> maintain the contents of my PEAR library.

Do you mean there's an HTML control panel for installing and removing 
PEAR packages from a server? I wasn't aware of that, and would be happy 
to add it as an additional point in list A. Could you post a link to the 
documentation for it?

Is it currently bundled with the official php.net releases? If so, then 
we should look into how widely used it is. If not, it is in the same 
category as pear.php.net, the coding style, and the libraries already 
written, i.e. it won't actually be affected by this RFC at all.

Incidentally, it's tricky to do the same thing with Composer, because 
it's mostly built around the idea of the dependencies as part of the 
code, i.e. separate for each project, rather than as part of the server 
setup. However, you can use it to install packages to a global shared 
path, I believe, so if there was interest, somebody could make a UI for 
doing that.

Regards,

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]