Re: [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:17:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle | ||
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On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, Sherif Ramadan wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Tony Marston <tonymarston@hotmail.com>
> PEAR/PECL as a package manager has historically had little utility to the
> average user apart from installing those PECL extensions which aren't
> packaged by a particular user's distribution repository. Certainly hasn't
> had any real viability in years. Trying to replace something that's
> inherently non-viable
I beg to differ - this time with stats:
https://pecl.php.net/package-stats.php
https://pecl.php.net/package-stats.php?pid=981&rid=&cid=7
https://pecl.php.net/package-stats.php?pid=214&rid=&cid=25
Literally millions of downloads, and recently too.
The PECL installer is in *wide* use.
cheers,
Derick