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

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Pierre Joye wrote: > > > This RFC is about stop bundling it with the php releases and propose > > composer/pickle instead. Everything else has nothing to do with this > > RFC (aka web frontend, what happens or not on pear.php.net, its > > packages, etc.). > > > > To all: please re focus to the topic. > > It's curious to see though that the off-topic comments get replies, but > few real concerns do from the RFC author - such as not removing > something before we have a confirmed alternative. I'd like to trial > pickle first for a few releases and only then see whether to remove the > PEAR/PECL installer. yeah, unfortunately when the thread gets flooded with off-topic mails it is easy to miss some replies in the noise. I do agree that it would be better and easier to only vote for bundling pickle instead of also voting for unbundling PEAR at the same time. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu