Re: Re: [PHP DEV] [Discussion] Native terminal helpers for PHP CLI

On Wed, Sep 16, 2026, at 11:49 PM, Pratik Bhujel wrote: > Hi Derick, > > Wanted to share a quick update since June. > > I ended up implementing your stream suggestions in the v0.6.0 and > v0.7.0 releases. All methods now accept native stream resources (like > STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, and php:// streams) directly alongside the > enums. I also published it to Packagist, and installing through PIE > works cleanly now. I also added prebuilt Windows x64 DLLs to the > releases so folks on Windows can test without compiling from source. > > My main motivation is still Windows CLI support. Tools like Laravel > Prompts and Symfony Console still drop into dumb text fallbacks on > Windows simply because core has no native raw mode or single key > reading primitives. > > Now that the PIE package is working across Linux, macOS, and Windows, I > wanted to check if you think this is worth bringing up as an RFC for > 8.5 or 8.6, or if it is better to keep gathering feedback through PIE > first? > > Thanks, > Pratik At this point it would be an RFC for 8.7, as 8.5 is already released and 8.6 is frozen. As I've not used it yet I cannot speak to when an RFC would be appropriate. However, I will note that libraries moving from PECL to php-src in the past have often undergone changes in the process, so they're not a direct transfer/rename. Whether that is an argument to move it to core sooner or later I leave as an exercise for the reader. (I could likely argue either way, really.) --Larry Garfield