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== PEAR in 2016 ==
== PEAR in 2016 ==
Is PEAR still relevant? In the age of GitHub and [[Composer]], if you listen to chatter on the Internet, it's easy to think that PEAR is a moribund project that is also irrelevant.  But it is actually alive and kicking.  Sadly, I don't think that the trends will reverse. Still, you need to know about PEAR and even how to use it with idempotency in [[Ansible]].
Is PEAR still relevant? In the age of GitHub and [[Composer]], if you listen to chatter on the Internet, it's easy to think that PEAR is a moribund project that is also irrelevant.  But it is actually alive and kicking.  Sadly, I don't think that the trends will reverse. Still, you need to know about PEAR and even [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20804004/installing-php-pear-packages-via-ansible-with-idempotency how to install PEAR with idempotency in Ansible]<ref>In my tests the 'and' trick for failed_when did not work because the new 2.x module does not have .stdout. There is only msg</ref>


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