Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:95682 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 62753 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2016 06:57:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Sep 2016 06:57:04 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 90.254.11.191 unknown Received: from [90.254.11.191] ([90.254.11.191:29375] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 14/DD-45301-DB86EC75 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2016 02:57:03 -0400 Message-ID: <14.DD.45301.DB86EC75@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net References: <1aad32b9-8481-2fb4-4912-66705bd59e57@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1aad32b9-8481-2fb4-4912-66705bd59e57@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 07:56:58 +0100 Lines: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 16.4.3564.1216 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V16.4.3564.1216 X-Posted-By: 90.254.11.191 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle From: TonyMarston@hotmail.com ("Tony Marston") "Stanislav Malyshev" wrote in message news:1aad32b9-8481-2fb4-4912-66705bd59e57@gmail.com... > >Hi! > >> Incorrect. There is a web interface which I use EXCLUSIVELY to maintain >> the contents of my PEAR library. Any proposed replacement which does not >> have a web interface I'm afraid is totally unacceptable. Command line >> interfaces went out of fashion when the Windows OS was first released, >> and anyone who still insists on using one has not joined the rest of the >> world in the 21st century. > >Err, no. Command line is as alive in 21th century as it was in 20th. >Which Microsoft fully recognizes finally now that they made their shell >as powerful as other shells has been instead of a sorry excuse for a >shell they had for years. Just because SOME people still like using a command line interface does not mean that they can force everyone else to use it. If any piece of 21st century does not come with a web/GUI interface it just shows that the author is still living in the past and is incapable of serving the needs of today's users. -- Tony Marston