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The RFC... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rfc-discussion-deprecate-pear-and-recommend-composer-7y1aoyken og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7Y1aOYkEN.png og:image:alt: [RFC] [Discussion] Deprecate PEAR and recommend Composer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # [RFC] [Discussion] Deprecate PEAR and recommend Composer **[externals.io](https://daily.dev/sources/externals)** · 40 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A PHP internals mailing list discussion about a proposed RFC to deprecate PEAR and officially recommend Composer as the de-facto PHP package manager. The RFC was withdrawn after it became clear that PEAR is maintained by a separate group outside the PHP GitHub organization, making it difficult for PHP internals to formally deprecate it. Community members broadly agree that unbundling PEAR/PECL from php-src and removing pear.php.net from the php.net domain are achievable steps, while formally deprecating the PEAR tool itself is complicated by unclear ownership and access. A pull request to remove PEAR/PECL from php-src was opened as a concrete first step. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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