On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 17:52, Pierre Schmitz<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wondered if we should just remove pear from our php package. Pear is a > package manager for php and as such bypasses pacman. Using pear is not a great > idea imho; you might have conflicts on php updates and files that are not > tracked by pacman. (using -f might break things here) > > People who still want to use pear instead of pacman could provide a PKGBUILD > in AUR for this. > > What do you think? > > And btw: pear itself does not seem of "high quality"; did anyone try it with > E_ALL|E_STRICT etc.?
This sounds reasonable to me. PEAR classes could/should be packaged it is the case with perl/python/ruby/lua/etc. packages BTW I've never had to use PEAR in any of PHP projects I do at my job, I wonder how broad its usage among PHP developers is. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
