Replace Pear with Composer

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Replace Pear with Composer

Postby NoMoreTears » 25. October 2015 18:23

XAMPP is filled with knickknacks and tchotchkes. Almost all are non-intrusive and sometimes useful.

Pear, however, keeps getting in the way of a modern experimental environment. It's not all Pear's fault, because many of the little tidbits hidden in PHP's Pear folder are unsupported and haven't been maintained with current versions (if they exist). XAMPP's Pear already interferes with my up-to-date version of PHPUnit for example--and there are other examples.

Meanwhile I think the PHP community has moved on to Composer and packagist for such dependencies.

With respect to XAMPP, is it time to let Pear fade into history and replace Pear with the Composer dependency Manager for PHP?
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Re: Replace Pear with Composer

Postby Altrea » 25. October 2015 19:05

You can choose not to use PEAR. I don't see any problems in including PEAR!?
And you can include composer very easy in XAMPP if you want to, like so: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=56990
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Re: Replace Pear with Composer

Postby NoMoreTears » 25. October 2015 21:10

Actually it is very difficult to avoid Pear in the current implementation-- requiring a whole bunch of one off file deletes in the PHP directory.

First, the xampp/php directory is added to the path.

Once you start using CLI tools, a whole bunch of little hidden bat files located in the PHP directory and many directed at Pear start hijacking actions.

Here is an example:

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#!\xampp\php\.\php.exe
<?php
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define('PHPUnit_MAIN_METHOD', 'PHPUnit_TextUI_Command::main');

if (strpos('\xampp\php\.\php.exe', '@php_bin') === 0) {
    require dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'PHPUnit' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'Autoload.php';
} else {
    require '\xampp\php\pear' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'PHPUnit' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'Autoload.php';
}

PHPUnit_TextUI_Command::main();


It isn't the only example. Some don't point at Pear, but run other little scripts.

They aren't namespaced or manged by any type of a controller. They also don't seem to be maintained here. Forgotten assets?

Every time XAMPP updates, all these little opt-out issues have to be corrected.

Why pick on Pear too? Because unlike Composer, Pear is built around supporting this kind of global mess in my opinion.
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