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

>To: Tony Marston >Cc: PHP internals >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with composer/pickle > >On Sep 8, 2016 3:05 PM, "Tony Marston" <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> "Pierre Joye" wrote in message news:CAEZPtU4TwuaP1xJx+z_n+Sgj1UjPTYn8pJ5xuvMjei2dke0gJg@mail.gmail.com... >> >>> >>> hi Tony, >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Tony Marston <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> "Pierre Joye" wrote in message >>>> news:CAEZPtU6aHYb9HsNXbXWp9q9PMoLYiJp=N1rjmspoFmHBEbDHxg@mail.gmail.com... >>>> >>> >>>>> Happy to see there are still users for this tool, Christian and I had >>>>> good fun writing it. Also you should know that this package is dead, >>>>> it has no acttve maintainer (I was the last one) and has some >>>>> limitations from to begin with, also was very handy at time especially >>>>> for shared hosting without shell access. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Typical. You create a useful tool, get your users hooked, then walk away and >>>> leave them dangling. >>> >>> >>> Ok. You seem to misunderstand the last part of my message. So let me >>> be crystal clear here. Your attitude right now is poisonous, at best. >>> Please change it. >> >> >> You may not like my attitude, but I am expressing myself without using abusive terms. I am simply expressing my displeasure with this RFC using civil, polite and non-abusive terminology. If you don't like my expressions of disapproval then don't try to bully me into submission as that simply will not work. > > > >> >>> Now about this specific comment. >>> >> <snip> >> >>> >>> So please, before you go down your big horse to insult my work and the >>> community, >> >> >> I did not insult your work as I have been using it for many years. What I find frustrating is that problems sometimes arise with a new PHP version, and nobody seems to be maintaining it. I have recently upgraded of my PCs to PHP7 and I had no end of problems. I had to debug and fix every error myself, but now I have the PEAR web interface up and running. > >This wording would have been better in the 1st place.