[MacPorts] #56424: pear modules in MacPorts

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#56424: pear modules in MacPorts
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 Reporter:  ryandesign   |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
Component:  ports        |    Version:
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 We have over 500 pear modules that were added to MacPorts in a batch in
 2011, most of which have never been updated since then. I'm guessing most
 of them are out of date by now. Just looking at a few:

 {{{
 $ port livecheck name:^pear-
 pear-Archive_Tar seems to have been updated (port version: 1.3.13, new
 version: 1.4.3)
 pear-Auth_RADIUS seems to have been updated (port version: 1.0.7, new
 version: 1.1.0)
 pear-Auth_SASL seems to have been updated (port version: 1.0.6, new
 version: 1.1.0)
 pear-AWSSDKforPHP seems to have been updated (port version: 1.5.8.1, new
 version: 2.6.16)
 pear-Cache_Lite seems to have been updated (port version: 1.7.15, new
 version: 1.8.2)
 Error: cannot check if pear-Config was updated (The requested URL returned
 error: 403 Forbidden)
 pear-Config_Lite seems to have been updated (port version: 0.2.1, new
 version: 0.2.6)
 pear-Console_CommandLine seems to have been updated (port version: 1.2.0,
 new version: 1.2.2)
 pear-Console_Getargs seems to have been updated (port version: 1.3.5, new
 version: 1.4.0)
 pear-Console_Getopt seems to have been updated (port version: 1.3.1, new
 version: 1.4.1)
 pear-Console_Table seems to have been updated (port version: 1.1.4, new
 version: 1.3.1)
 pear-Crypt_GPG seems to have been updated (port version: 1.3.2, new
 version: 1.6.2)
 Error: cannot check if pear-Crypt_RC4 was updated (The requested URL
 returned error: 404 Not Found)
 Error: cannot check if pear-Crypt_RSA was updated (The requested URL
 returned error: 404 Not Found)
 pear-Date seems to have been updated (port version: 1.5.0a2, new version:
 1.5.0a4)
 pear-Date_Holidays seems to have been updated (port version: 0.21.6, new
 version: 0.21.8)
 pear-Date_Holidays_Australia seems to have been updated (port version:
 0.2.1, new version: 0.2.2)
 pear-Date_Holidays_Austria seems to have been updated (port version:
 0.1.4, new version: 0.1.6)
 ^CError: Aborted: SIGINT received.
 }}}

 We either need an automated way to update them all, similar to the
 automated way in which they were presumably originally added, or else a
 concerted manual effort to update them, or we need to rethink whether we
 want them in MacPorts at all.

 There's only one non-pear port in MacPorts that depends on any pear ports,
 and that's "base". If we don't want to keep the entire collection of pear
 modules up to date in MacPorts, we could remove all but those that base
 needs. Or we could remove all the pear modules and base as well.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/56424>
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