On Sep 10, 2016 3:32 PM, "Lester Caine" <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> I think I am right in saying Pierre originally needed pickle so that > PEAR could be dropped in the windows? It was not the reason. My main motivation is about ease developer work (no information duplication, wrong version number, binary support out of the box, etc), allow installation from any sources and provide a packagist for extensions and kill the need of "package release" and finally make it work with composer. Pecl is still supported and any pecl package (v2) can be installed using pecl. Right now the majority of extensions are not available via pecl but in GitHub and a bit on bitbucket. And this tells me that there is a big need for a composer for extensions.
