On 11/09/16 11:44, Sherif Ramadan wrote: > I just want to say that PEAR as a source repository, has been dead for > quite some time. It's filled with outdated code that has hardly seen any > maintenance in years, and nobody really contributes to it anyway.
While I will agree that for a large section of the repository that is the case, there IS a section of core tools that are still actively used and it would be nice to have them properly supported via the core system rather than the rather disjointed way they are maintained today. I tidied up that area on a project last month to bring it in line with PHP7, and I know other projects are independently maintaining a copy which is a waste of effort. Yes PEAR is not going away, but pretending it does not have any use today is equally wrong. It does not need to be installed by default, but most distributions do seem to do a better job at maintaining a current set of tools than PHP does itself? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
