Re: [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:55:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle | ||
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On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, Michael Wallner wrote:
> +1 on stabbing the PEAR installer from the source distribution.
The PEAR installer is not just the *PEAR* installer, it
installs and packages PECL extensions too. Actually, it's the only way
how people directly install PECL extensions.
> -1 on adding anything else. Composer is as easy to install separately
> as PEAR from their origin as well as from OS distributions these days.
So do you want PHP not to have a tool that installs extensions out of
the box? Frankly, I think that's irresponsible.
cheers,
Derick