Re: Disable PEAR by default

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:27 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 > > I think the reasons for this should be obvious. It's not really the recent > security breach itself, but rather the underlying issue that PEAR simply > isn't actively maintained anymore. > > Currently PEAR is broken on master due to the removal of each(), which was > deprecated in PHP 7.2. Apparently, since that time nobody noticed that PEAR > is throwing deprecation errors, or at least nobody bothered to fix them. > (I've submitted > https://github.com/pear/Console_Getopt/pull/3 to fix at > least this particular issue.) > > It's somewhat unfortunate that PEAR and PECL are coupled projects, but I > don't think that should prevent us from changing this default. > > Regards, > Nikita > I've gone ahead and merged this change. PEAR is no longer installed by default, instead --with-pear must be specified. Additionally the option generates a deprecation warning during ./configure now. Nikita