Re: Concerns about PEAR in PHP6

Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Joshua Eichorn schrieb: > >>Today Pierre announced that he pulled PEAR from PHP6 branch > > > I think it is a Good Thing that the sources for PEAR have been pulled > from the PHP module. This gets rid off the hassle to synchronize > pear-core and php-src/pear. I've been wanting to remove this mess for a while, which is why I am so excited about PHP_Archive-based .phars. > By the time PHP 6 comes out we will (hopefully) have PEAR 1.4 and a > PHAR-based distribution of the PEAR Installer that can be easily > installed -- either manually by the user (or the distribution) or by > adding the PHAR to the release tarball and its Makefile. Let's not forget that by then it may be easy to drop the PEAR installer as a package altogether. Far better is to have a PEAR.phar that is a running PEAR installer that works out of the box. This would require syncing pear/pear.bat and PEAR.phar. Of course, this is very much vaporware, so time will tell whether it actually works. Greg