pecl installer (-ng ;)

hi, A long due task on my desk was the binary support for the pecl installer. After having tried to somehow get the current PEAR/PECL code base somehow sane or doing what we need to achieve for good extension management support, I came to the conclusion that it will be much easier to start from scratch. It is a half day job-state right now, but there is base to discuss the most important things already and anyone willing to contribute or help is welcome. See: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pickle To make a long story short: - composer support - reduce data duplication and error prone packaging/releasing - provide BC by converting package.xml to the new files and json This works is based on a discussions I had with the composer developers in the last 10-12months, while never having the time to actually begin with this work. Long weekend helped. Some attempts have been done in the past on the composer side: https://github.com/composer/composer/pull/498 https://github.com/composer/composer/pull/2898 But these efforts have been stopped. It is easier to rely on an external installer (process too) to do this task. I will commit the actual installer in the next days so it will be actually usuable :) Any feedback, support, contributions welcome already. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org