Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:95915 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 23126 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2016 11:08:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Sep 2016 11:08:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 217.147.176.214 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.147.176.214 mail4-2.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [217.147.176.214] ([217.147.176.214:45670] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 3C/99-46544-E2B35D75 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2016 07:08:31 -0400 Received: (qmail 6047 invoked by uid 89); 11 Sep 2016 11:08:27 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 6037, pid: 6044, t: 0.0627s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.7?) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@81.138.11.136) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 11 Sep 2016 11:08:27 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: Message-ID: <875d6a67-e124-1e4c-29f0-d9b8c474b184@lsces.co.uk> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 12:08:27 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 11/09/16 11:44, Sherif Ramadan wrote: > I just want to say that PEAR as a source repository, has been dead for > quite some time. It's filled with outdated code that has hardly seen any > maintenance in years, and nobody really contributes to it anyway. While I will agree that for a large section of the repository that is the case, there IS a section of core tools that are still actively used and it would be nice to have them properly supported via the core system rather than the rather disjointed way they are maintained today. I tidied up that area on a project last month to bring it in line with PHP7, and I know other projects are independently maintaining a copy which is a waste of effort. Yes PEAR is not going away, but pretending it does not have any use today is equally wrong. It does not need to be installed by default, but most distributions do seem to do a better job at maintaining a current set of tools than PHP does itself? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk