Re: Overhauling lang/pear

[Takahiro Kambe <taca%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

In message <CAN+FjHPwCAQ3RBeir_80EeqE02aWFFnZGLYmEKR6EYcHz6biQA%mail.gmail.com@localhost>
	on Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:28:42 +0200,
	Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> I think Takahiro-san is the person that typically updates PHP and
> PEAR, so I Cc'd him explicitly.
Thanks.  (But I've already read Jonathan's mail and I'm examing now.)

>>    https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc/commit/c85b955e68c80d27764e8b15d6c942ca3b7178f2
> 
> I am confused about this bit in the patch:
> 
> +DISTNAME= pearweb_phars-1.10.24
> +PKGREVISION= 3
> +PKGNAME= ${PHP_PKG_PREFIX}-pear-1.10.16
> 
> Why does 1.10.24 include pear 1.10.16? Is that just an upstream oddity?

pearweb_phars contains PEAR, Archive_Tar, Console_Getopt,
Structures_Graph and XML_Util pear packages and 1.10.24 is pearweb
package's version not PEAR itself.

>> When using PHP, the PEAR Package Manager is already installed unless one has used the ./configure option --without-pear.
> 
> So should we have a separate pear package at all? Should we build it
> from the PHP tarball?
pkgsrc's PHP packages are built with --without-pear.

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