On 11 October 2025 10:32:26 BST, Pierre Joye <[email protected]> wrote:

>For the packages repositories hosted (git, ex-svn),yes, see
>https://github.com/pear. The idea of the group was to be able to take
>over abandoned but widely used packages, define what licenses are
>allowed and other related areas. The packages repositories not hosted
>on php's repos are still where they used to be, if the service still
>exists.

An additional point worth noting is that all the packages in that GitHub org 
are published to both PEAR and Packagist. A few may not have been tested in 
Composer projects, but fixes are likely to be easy as long as someone's 
available to tag a new release - I seem to remember raising a small PR to fix 
some autoloading or dependency issues for something I needed.

For users not ready to adopt a full Composer per-project workflow, we could 
recommend to use its global install mode, e.g.

Replace:
pear install HTML_Template_IT
With: 
composer global install pear/html_template_it

Then all that should need fixing is include paths or autoloader setup in the 
application.


Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]

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