The long lack of namespacing probably hurt the adopting of package management in PHP but also it seems like overkill. I use an occasional PEAR package, but I always just download the source and integrate it into the project that way. It seems like more work to go through a package manager especially since I work on multiple different operating systems. It might also help that PHP packages tend to have very few dependencies.
I think it may seem like more work, but without strong package management things like reinventing the kitchen sink & copy pasta from various unreliable sources becomes the norm. You could almost say that the comments in the PHP manual were relied on more often than PEAR.
Although package management can cause it's own problems like dependency hell or multiple packages that do the same thing but none of them do it well.
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The long lack of namespacing probably hurt the adopting of package management in PHP but also it seems like overkill. I use an occasional PEAR package, but I always just download the source and integrate it into the project that way. It seems like more work to go through a package manager especially since I work on multiple different operating systems. It might also help that PHP packages tend to have very few dependencies.
I think it may seem like more work, but without strong package management things like reinventing the kitchen sink & copy pasta from various unreliable sources becomes the norm. You could almost say that the comments in the PHP manual were relied on more often than PEAR.
Although package management can cause it's own problems like dependency hell or multiple packages that do the same thing but none of them do it well.