Removing references to the PEAR channel and updating zip and phar links

docs/index.rst

@@ -68,8 +68,7 @@ AWS SDK for PHP
 The **AWS SDK for PHP** enables PHP developers to use `Amazon Web Services <http://aws.amazon.com/>`_ from their PHP
 code, and build robust applications and software using services like Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Glacier, etc.
 You can get started in minutes by installing the SDK through Composer — by requiring the ``aws/aws-sdk-php`` package —
-or by downloading the standalone `aws.zip <http://pear.amazonwebservices.com/get/aws.zip>`_ or
-`aws.phar <http://pear.amazonwebservices.com/get/aws.phar>`_ files.
+or by downloading the standalone zip or phar package from https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php/releases.
 
 Getting Started
 ---------------

docs/installation.rst

@@ -74,14 +74,11 @@ with the phar file are the following required and suggested libraries:
 -  `Monolog <https://github.com/seldaek/monolog>`_ and `Psr\\Log <https://github.com/php-fig/log>`_ for logging
 -  `Doctrine <https://github.com/doctrine/common>`_ for caching
 
-You can `download the packaged Phar <http://pear.amazonwebservices.com/get/aws.phar>`_ and simply include it in your
-scripts to get started::
+You can download specific versions of a packaged Phar from https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php/releases
+and simply include it in your scripts to get started::
 
     require '/path/to/aws.phar';
 
-If you have `phing <http://www.phing.info/>`_ installed, you can clone the SDK and build a phar file yourself using the
-*"phar"* task.
-
 .. note::
 
     If you are using PHP with the Suhosin patch (especially common on Ubuntu and Debian distributions), you may need
@@ -109,7 +106,8 @@ Using the zip file is great if you:
 2. Cannot use phar files due to environment limitations.
 3. Want to use only specific files from the SDK.
 
-To get started, you must `download the zip file <http://pear.amazonwebservices.com/get/aws.zip>`_, unzip it into your
+To get started, you must download a specific version of the zip file from
+https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php/releases, unzip it into your
 project to a location of your choosing, and include the autoloader::
 
     require '/path/to/aws-autoloader.php';
@@ -118,41 +116,3 @@ Alternatively, you can write your own autoloader or use an existing one from you
 
 If you have `phing <http://www.phing.info/>`_ installed, you can clone the SDK and build a zip file yourself using the
 *"zip"* task.
-
-Installing via PEAR
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-.. admonition:: Installation via PEAR will soon be unsupported.
-
-    The use of PEAR as a dependency management system has declined in the PHP community in favor of Composer, and
-    notable projects like PHPUnit, Symfony, and Doctrine are all retiring their PEAR channels at various points
-    during this year. We will eventually stop updating our PEAR channel during this year, so we strongly recommend that
-    you switch to using Composer to install the AWS SDK for PHP.
-
-
-`PEAR <http://pear.php.net/>`_ packages are easy to install, and are available in your PHP environment path so that they
-are accessible to any PHP project. PEAR packages are not specific to your project, but rather to the machine they're
-installed on.
-
-From the command-line, you can install the SDK with PEAR as follows (this might need to be run as ``sudo``):
-
-.. code-block:: sh
-
-    pear config-set auto_discover 1
-    pear channel-discover pear.amazonwebservices.com
-    pear install aws/sdk
-
-Alternatively, you can combine all three of the preceding statements into one by doing the following:
-
-.. code-block:: sh
-
-    pear -D auto_discover=1 install pear.amazonwebservices.com/sdk
-
-Once the SDK has been installed via PEAR, you can include the ``aws.phar`` into your project with:
-
-.. code-block:: php
-
-    require 'AWSSDKforPHP/aws.phar';
-
-This assumes that the PEAR directory is in your PHP include path, which it probably is, if PEAR is working correctly.
-If needed, you can determine your PEAR directory by running ``pear config-get php_dir``.