Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Recommend PIE and deprecate PECL
| From: | James Titcumb | Date: | Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:20:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Recommend PIE and deprecate PECL | ||
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Jakub,
I think the conclusion we came to was that existing PECL extensions may use
the
pecl/ vendor, but new extns should use their own vendor. We can
probably just add that to the PIE docs for clarity, rather than use the RFC
process.
Thanks
James
On Wed, 3 Sept 2025 at 19:54, Jakub Zelenka <bukka@php.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM James Titcumb <titcumbjames@gmail..com>
> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Presenting the RFC for deprecating PECL and adopting PIE as the
>> recommended extension installer for PHP:
>>
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/adopt_pie_deprecate_pecl
>>
>>
> +1 on this in general.
>
> The only thing that might be worth to consider is what to do with
> prefixing of extension repos that we currently have in PHP GH org. Should
> that be also deprecated and should we make clear that we are not going to
> add more of those pecl-* repos and maybe at some point try to move them out
> of php GH org?
>
> Cheers
>
> Jakub
>