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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with
 composer/pickle
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, Sherif Ramadan wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Tony Marston <tonymarston@hotmail.com>
> PEAR/PECL as a package manager has historically had little utility to the
> average user apart from installing those PECL extensions which aren't
> packaged by a particular user's distribution repository. Certainly hasn't
> had any real viability in years. Trying to replace something that's
> inherently non-viable

I beg to differ - this time with stats:

https://pecl.php.net/package-stats.php
https://pecl.php.net/package-stats.php?pid=981&rid=&cid=7
https://pecl.php.net/package-stats.php?pid=214&rid=&cid=25

Literally millions of downloads, and recently too.

The PECL installer is in *wide* use.

cheers,
Derick