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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with
 composer/pickle
From: thomas@nunninger.info (Thomas Nunninger)

Hi,

On 09/06/2016 09:14 AM, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> Am 05.09.2016 um 12:13 schrieb Derick Rethans:
>> You can't really ship PHP without a way to install extensions though!
>
> Why not?
>
> IMHO, PHP should not be shipped with any tool for installing PHP
> components (PEAR Installer, Composer, ...) or extensions (PECL Installer,
> ...).
>
> In my experience, people either install PHP using the package manager of
> their OS distribution or they build PHP from the sources themselves. In
> the latter case, they know how to build/install extensions manually and do
> not need a tool for that.

Not in my case. In a few cases I needed to install extensions that were 
not provided by my package manager.

Regards

Thomas