On 28.01.2015 10:46, Tony Marston wrote:
> "Sebastian Bergmann"  wrote in message news:54c75d9e.8090...@php.net...
>>
>> Am 27.01.2015 um 10:00 schrieb Lester Caine:
>>> composer has not even managed to get added to some distributions yet
>>
>> This is not about PEAR Installer vs. Composer or something else. This
>> is about the PHP core getting untangled from third-party software that
>> impedes the development of PHP itself.
>>
>> As a sidenote, to most (if not all) PHP developers that I have met
>> since PHP 5 came out there is nothing of value in PEAR (as in the
>> packages hosted on pear.php.net).
> 
> How about those applications which still user the MAIL functions in
> PEAR? How about some of the 3rd party applications, such as SVNManager
> which still require some PEAR functions?

When an application uses a library which is broken under new php versions

* fix the library
* exchange the library, use a mail component from horde, roundcube,
zend... don't know
* keep the old PHP version.

So much for MAIL - it's been like that for years with other bc breaks.

For pear, you can probably
* install PEAR separately from PHP
(which might be healthy for PEAR itself)
* use pyrus instead
* get the MAIL package from another source than pear, like composer or
distribution RPMs.


@sebastian:

pear.php.net still has some valuable things like Date_Holidays, but most
of it is not desirable anymore. This is not necessarily the case for all
those 3rd party channels around. I know some of them have been removed,
but that's another point.


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