Re: Proposal to remove PECL ports from the PEAR category

> On Mar 2, 2024, at 11:59 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I did a little survey on PHP PECL ports and found that almost half of the PECL ports (27 out of 68) have PEAR listed as the second category. I believe this is a mistake and PECL ports should not be listed in the PEAR category because PECL [1] ports are PHP extensions (wrappers for C libraries), but PEAR [2] ports are libraries written in PHP.
> 
> Or did I miss something and there is a reasonable reason for PECL ports to be also listed in the PEAR category?
> 
> These are 27 ports:
> 
> archivers/pecl-lzf        archivers pear
> archivers/pecl-rar        archivers pear
> databases/pecl-mongodb    databases pear
> databases/pecl-rrd        databases pear
> devel/pecl-dio            devel pear
> devel/pecl-excimer        devel pear
> devel/pecl-expect         devel pear
> devel/pecl-uploadprogress devel pear
> devel/pecl-uuid           devel pear
> devel/pecl-vld            devel pear
> devel/pecl-xdebug         devel pear
> graphics/pecl-qrencode    graphics pear
> net-im/pecl-stomp2        net-im pear
> net/pecl-amqp             net pear
> net/pecl-oauth2           net pear
> net/pecl-radius           net security pear
> net/pecl-rdkafka          net pear
> net/pecl-smbclient        net pear
> net/pecl-xmlrpc           net pear
> security/pecl-krb5        security pear
> security/pecl-mcrypt      security pear
> security/pecl-pam         security pear
> security/pecl-scrypt      security pear
> security/pecl-ssh2        security pear
> sysutils/pecl-proctitle   sysutils pear
> textproc/pecl-xdiff2      textproc pear
> textproc/pecl-yaml        textproc pear
> 
> Should I submit a PR with a patch for all 27 ports?
> 
> [1] https://pecl.php.net/
> [2] https://pear.php.net/
> 
> Kind regards
> Miroslav Lachman
> 

As the maintainer of php I do agree with this. The only problem is
other maintainers of some of the ports do not. There was a
discussion on this long time(php5) ago which did not see any fruitful
result.

You can create a review instead in phabricator and add the maintainers
and retry again.

Kind regards,
Moin