Re: [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle
| From: | James Gilliland | Date: | Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:28:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle | ||
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On Sun, Sep 4, 2016, 7:09 PM Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2016. szept. 2. 21:58 ezt írta ("James Gilliland" <neclimdul@gmail.com>):
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 2:33 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
> > >
> > > I highly recommend reading the twitter poll and accompanying thread at
> > > https://twitter.com/dshafik/status/756337267547832320
> > >
> > > I believe that pickle solves the issues with regards to pecl, and have
> run
> > > the idea passed Jordi and Pierre. Both are fine with this RFC. :)
> > >
> > > I understand that adding in composer/pickle is just setting us up for
> > > having a future "Deprecate composer/pickle & Replace with foo/bar"
> RFC, so
> > > I've proposed the voting reflect that some people will just want to
> > > deprecate/remove pear/pecl and not replace them at all.
> > >
> > > I'm also proposing voting choices around the optional/default
> introduction
> > > of composer/pickle.
> > >
> > > - Davey
> > >
> > Will composer/pickle address the unsolved PHP compatibility issue that
> > makes pecl a pain following the PHP 7 release?
>
> You are probably talking about fvl5je
> ;https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71224.
>
> My understanding is that when fetching the packages from pecl.php.net
> pickle would still have the same problem (
> https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/pickle/issues/133) but if pecl
> authors
> start adding composer.json to their repos you can describe the php version
> dependency for the given extension on a per tag/version basis.
>
> I still think that it would be worth implementing
> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71224
>
Accidentally replied directly, different report but same issue
https://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=21008