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

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Tony Marston <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> wrote: > "Ferenc Kovacs" wrote in message > news:CAH-PCH5qHdYen33Q_s7kTKM_ > 8qK71v8Ky6kT4fzuRfAwfX06BQ@mail.gmail.com... > >> >> >>> >>> Composer doesn't do that. >>>> >>>> >>> Then how come I've seen several complaints in various forums about >>> composer updating libraries in the background and screwing things up. >>> >> >> That proves nothing except that your knowledge is very limited. >>> >> > >> indeed it does. >> > > I can only report what I have read in various newsgroups and forums, and > they have said that composer has screwed up their installations. If it is > capable of doing that then it is a serious issue that needs addressing. you can, but you shouldn't spread FUD but do your own research. composer will only do something when you execute it, without providing any actual problem, there is no way those could be refuted (FUD), and brings nothing to the discussion. what you have probably seen is people not using the tool properly from my experience people usually screw 2 things up: 1. executing "composer update" without any arguments which will update every package listed in your composer.json file to the latest version allowed by the version constraints 2. not putting the composer.lock under version control and then being surprised that the other developer who makes a "composer install" from composer.json can have different(eg. more recent) versions installed -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu