Hi James,
On Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 3:29 PM James Titcumb <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 at 21:39, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > >> Apparently, this RFC has been withdrawn in the meantime. I would like >> to know why. :) > > > I absolutely agree with you - a discussion took place on the PHP > Foundation slack. I raised a concern that it should be discussed here on > the list for transparency. I am frustrated that it was not. > > The short version of that discussion is that PEAR is maintained by someone > else; the PEAR group apparently is separate from the PHP group, as I > understand it. > I don't remember the reason back then but it was basically maintained by core devs at some point, including myself. I also wanted to propose that long ago but the composer's team disagree as they wanted to remain fully independent. It may still be the case (you surely ask them). also given there is PIE now, this was theast reason to keep pear/pecl installer around, suggesting to use composer/pie cannot hurt and keep composer independent. a removal/fade it way could be a future next step. >> >> >>
