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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:05:59 +0200
From: Fabien Potencier <fabien.potenc...@symfony-project.com>
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On 6/13/12 11:46 PM, cdamian wrote:
> Yes, I am a bit worried that PEAR will get obsolete too. But I think it=

> is different for the components. They are used by PEAR packages and you=

> need the dependencies there.
> When installing tools like phpunit and phpqa related stuff I am glad
> that I can install them with PEAR or distribution installer and have th=
e
> dependencies automatically installed and updated. They will be used by
> different projects I am working on.
>
> It is different for projects that use frameworks, there the composer
> makes sense because you want to have control over all your dependencies=

> in the git repository. I usually don't include phpqa or tools in
> composer files.
>
> On the other hand: I know have to deal with a lot of ruby projects
> (puppet, vagrant, cucumber, ...) they tend to bundle all libraries and
> sometimes even ruby itself, because of the dependency hell they are in.=

> Once a security problem is found in a central library I will have to
> update all ruby projects.
>
> I don't know how much work it is to keep the PEAR stuff up for the
> components, but it certainly makes my life easier at work and as Fedora=

> packager.

PEAR packages are not going to be removed anytime soon. My point was=20
that if you are going to contribute to Symfony, using PEAR is probably=20
not the best option.

Fabien

> On Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:59:47 UTC+2, Fabien Potencier wrote:
>
>     Frankly, the PEAR packages are more or less obsolete as we now have=

>     Composer. Installing Symfony or any other framework for that matter=

>     globally on a system does not make much sense.
>
>     Fabien
>
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>     Fabien Potencier
>     Sensio CEO - Symfony lead developer
>     sensiolabs.com <http://sensiolabs.com> | symfony.com
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>     On 6/13/12 6:47 PM, Shawn Iwinski wrote:
>      > What do you all think about adding the component tests that are
>      > available in the source repos to the PEAR packages? I know
>     personally
>      > there were a couple issues I had and having the unit tests to ru=
n
>     would
>      > have have most likely found the problem earlier than I did
>     manually. I
>      > wanted to get some opinions before actually filing a request.
>      >
>      > Shawn Iwinski
>      >
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