Re: Disable PEAR by default

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 1:32 PM Zeev Suraski <zeev@php.net> wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 1:27 PM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi internals, >> >> I would like to suggest that installation of PEAR is disabled by default >> in >> PHP 7.4. PR: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/3781 > > > This thread went a bit off topic, but to return to its original subject - > I'm also supportive of this move. > > Zeev > I think the main question we need to decide if we might want to go a step further and not just disable PEAR by default, but rather remove the option from configure entirely. Either right away in PHP-7.4 or in master for PHP 8. It's always easy to manually install PEAR via go-pear.phar (well, apart from right now because pear.php.net is down -- but then again the --enable-pear option is also broken now). Given that PHP 7.4 already comes with lots of ./configure changes due to the migration to pkg-config, which will require people to adjust their configure lines anyway, this might be a good moment to drop the PEAR flag altogether. Nikita