Re: [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:33 PM Davey Shafik <me@daveyshafik.com> wrote: > Hi internals, > > I'd like to introduce a new RFC to deprecate pear/pecl (in 7.2, and remove > in 8.0), as well as add composer/pickle (optional in 7.2, default in 7.3+) > in their place. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-pear-include-composer +1 A bunch of years back I tried contributing to a handful of PEAR_Auth packages and the 'maintainer' rejected them all on the basis of the PEAR library was mothballed with recommendation to use ZendFrameworks Auth packages. I know at least where I work we're migrating everything off of PEAR in deference to community maintained packages in composer. The only negative I could possibly see is a lack of a central, for lack of a better term, authority of PHP preferred packages for the multitude of services PEAR offers. But I don't necessarily see this as a major issue with the multitude of frameworks&microframeworks that modularize all their bits and places like composer/packagist maintaining a growing list of packages. I guess PEAR served that purpose years ago in a more isolated PHP source environment, rather than today where it's heavily tracked and distributed. Cheers -- Dave