[PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle

2016-09-04 Thread Tom Worster
On 9/2/16 3:32 PM, Davey Shafik wrote: Hi internals, I'd like to introduce a new RFC to deprecate pear/pecl (in 7.2, and remove in 8.0), Yes! It's good for the software (and its users) if it is maintained and contributed to using _currently_prevailing_conventions_ in f/oss. as well as ad

[PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle

2016-09-02 Thread Davey Shafik
Also, just wanted to say: As a former fairly major contributor to PEAR (see: http://pear.php.net/user/davey) I understand that PEAR has a special place in the heart of many old-school PHP developers — but I believe that the community has spoken, through lack of action on PEARs part, and the rapid