Re: Re: com php-src: Revert "Disable PEAR by default": configure.in

On 27/01/15 09:56, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Am 27.01.2015 um 10:52 schrieb Lester Caine: >> > On 27/01/15 09:42, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: >>> >> PEAR has served its purpose, it provided value for the PHP >>> >> ecosystem for a time, but now it should be retired. >> > >> > So what happens to http://pear.php.net ? > That is a good question. I think that PEAR should stop being an > "official" PHP project. And following that thought pear.php.net > should be moved to a different domain. The same thing happened > with Smarty which used to be hosted at smarty.php.net. Well perhaps you should check .. http://www.smarty.net/ has been the home of smarty for a long time. That is another project that I rely on extensively, just as key functions from PEAR are ... and we would perhaps still have a usable phpdocumentor as well if that had not been farmed off. And had ADOdb been taken more seriously we would not have the mess that is PDO today. Is now the time for a different home for 'realPHP' ? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk