Re: PHP 7.3 branched

On 31.07.2018 at 18:44, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > Off-topic: Perhaps its time to look at alternatives and unbundle pear > instead of only seeimly (at a quick glance) keeping it alive for newer > PHP compatibility, which seems to have the main case for the last > couple of years. We had issues with pear releases at close to every > larger release in close to 10 years. Hardly surprising. I've recently seen some current PEAR code (trunk/master), and this was still written with PHP 4 compatibility in mind (lots of reference assignments for objects, for instance). > We have alternatives like pickle[1] thats fairly new or I'm sure we > can develop a tool capable of managing PECL extensions. > > [1] https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/pickle I've never tried pickle, and I have no idea about its status and usability (after all, further development appears to have been mostly ceased[2]), but still it might be the best way to move forward. [2] <https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/pickle/graphs/contributors> -- Christoph M. Becker