Re: better management of php-src/pear and PEAR's future in php

From: Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:59:03 +0000
Subject: Re: better management of php-src/pear and PEAR's future in php
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On 17/07/09 00:20, Greg Beaver wrote:
1) how important is the backwards compatibility of the "pear" and "pecl" script commands? I.e. does Pyrus need to provide a way to emulate the interface to these scripts or can we break backwards compatibility on this point by having these scripts just call pyrus's frontend with default channels pear/pecl?
Even as a very heavy user of the PEAR installer, I don't think it's essential. I also think that given Pyrus is very much brand new tech (e.g. PHP 5.3+), it would be good to make a clean break and keep Pyrus clean of legacy things. However, if the backwards compatibility is not preserved 100%, I would prefer that the commands "pear" and "pecl" were *not* provided by Pyrus at all, a) to avoid confusion b) to allow the possibility of someone building a truly compatible layer which emulates the old commands Tim

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