Is PEAR obsolete?

Question

PHP

Do you use PEAR? If so, how can it be used effectively?

Answer 1

The tools are there to use them effectively. If it doesn't fit, use another one.
> how you can effectively use
take and use effectively

Answer 2

Deprecated. Not using.

Answer 3

if you google it, pear has been buried for 10 years already, now that there is a composer, he is very much dead, although voodoo magic still allows him to use it.