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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with
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From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> There should be a rule that nothing can be deprecated unless there is a
> viable, stable, fully functioning and fully supported alternative. I do
> not like the way that some people simply say "I do not like this. I do
> not use this. Nobody should be using this. Let's deprecate it"

You can have any rules you like, but if the original author is not
interested in the tool anymore, the only options you have are:

1. Support it yourself
2. Pay/beg/bribe/persuade somebody to do it for you
3. Failing that, use it unsupported or switch to another tool

That's not only how the open source works, that's how everything works -
try to get support for out-of-support commercial software (or
out-of-support hardware for that matter) and see if it's any easier.

So yes, it is "typical" as you note - as typical as the life can be :)

That said, if the tool is useful and being used, I completely agree that
we should make effort in keeping it supported. But we should also
account for the possibility of that effort not being successful.
-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com