--- title: [RFC] [Discussion] Deprecate PEAR and recommend Composer description: A PHP internals mailing list discussion about a proposed RFC to deprecate PEAR and officially recommend Composer as PHP's package manager. The RFC was quickly... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rfc-discussion-deprecate-pear-and-recommend-composer-kpeaygj1s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: [RFC] [Discussion] Deprecate PEAR and recommend Composer | daily.dev og:description: A PHP internals mailing list discussion about a proposed RFC to deprecate PEAR and officially recommend Composer as PHP's package manager. The RFC was quickly... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rfc-discussion-deprecate-pear-and-recommend-composer-kpeaygj1s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kPeayGj1s.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)** · 38 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 PHP's package manager. The RFC was quickly withdrawn after it emerged that PEAR is maintained by a separate group outside the PHP GitHub organization, making it unclear whether PHP internals has the authority to deprecate it. Discussion participants generally agree that unbundling PEAR/PECL from php-src and removing pear.php.net from the php.net domain are feasible actions within PHP's control, while formally deprecating the PEAR project itself is not. There is broad consensus that Composer should be acknowledged as the de-facto standard PHP package manager, but governance and access questions complicate any formal action. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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