Am 27.01.2015 um 10:00 schrieb Lester Caine: > composer has not even managed to get added to some distributions yet
This is not about PEAR Installer vs. Composer or something else. This is about the PHP core getting untangled from third-party software that impedes the development of PHP itself. As a sidenote, to most (if not all) PHP developers that I have met since PHP 5 came out there is nothing of value in PEAR (as in the packages hosted on pear.php.net). These packages became obsolete the moment the PEAR Installer supported channels other than pear.php.net. Now that most (if not all) commonly used libraries, components, frameworks, tools, etc. no longer (exclusively) offer their releases as PEAR packages, the PEAR Installer has become irrelevant. It should no longer be bundled with PHP (neither should any other package manager). PEAR has served its purpose, it provided value for the PHP ecosystem for a time, but now it should be retired. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
