Re: Concerns about PEAR in PHP6

Ian Eure wrote:

On Monday 15 August 2005 09:19 pm, Joshua Eichorn wrote:

Today Pierre announced that he pulled PEAR from PHP6 branch (http://blog.thepimp.net/index.php/2005/08/16/13-php-60-and-pear).

Could someone out there who's more involved in the PHP release process (is this public?) give some background on this? PHP 5.1 will ship with PEAR, when PHP 6 is released the problematic part (XML_RPC) will have been replaced by the REST based backend, and 1.4 will be stable enough to include in the distribution. There are problems with the XML_RPC implementation and I see no problem with disengaging until we can work out the problems and push out a stable 1.4.

Worst case scenario is that PHP6 ships without PEAR. Distros will include it (most of them package is seperatly anyway), and anyone who wants to build it themselves or use the official binaries will need to get it from go-pear.org (which is really the best way to get it anyway). Too many parties are committed to using PEAR as a distribution method to be ignored or discarded by PHP core. The reports of PEAR's death have been greatly exaggerated! My two (euro) cents Aaron