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

On 28.01.2015 10:46, Tony Marston wrote: > "Sebastian Bergmann" wrote in message > news:54C75D9E.8090905@php.net... >> >> Am 27.01.2015 um 10:00 schrieb Lester Caine: >>> composer has not even managed to get added to some distributions yet >> >> This is not about PEAR Installer vs. Composer or something else. This >> is about the PHP core getting untangled from third-party software that >> impedes the development of PHP itself. >> >> As a sidenote, to most (if not all) PHP developers that I have met >> since PHP 5 came out there is nothing of value in PEAR (as in the >> packages hosted on pear.php.net). > > How about those applications which still user the MAIL functions in > PEAR? How about some of the 3rd party applications, such as SVNManager > which still require some PEAR functions? When an application uses a library which is broken under new php versions * fix the library * exchange the library, use a mail component from horde, roundcube, zend... don't know * keep the old PHP version. So much for MAIL - it's been like that for years with other bc breaks. For pear, you can probably * install PEAR separately from PHP (which might be healthy for PEAR itself) * use pyrus instead * get the MAIL package from another source than pear, like composer or distribution RPMs. @sebastian: pear.php.net still has some valuable things like Date_Holidays, but most of it is not desirable anymore. This is not necessarily the case for all those 3rd party channels around. I know some of them have been removed, but that's another point. -- Ralf Lang Linux Consultant / Developer Tel.: +49-170-6381563 Mail: lang@b1-systems.de B1 Systems GmbH Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537

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