Feedback: does it make sense?

[willdurand]

Questions are:

• does this package actually make sense?
• or should I find another way to retrieve the PHP doc on the command line? (offline mode would be nice)

[lyrixx]

or should I find another way to retrieve the PHP doc on the command line? (offline mode would be nice)

Do you know http://devdocs.io/? They have an offline mode.

[gyndav]

+1 for pman for offline use.
+1 for Docker isolation.

I don't think it makes sense to use Composer for global packaging, a bash script downloaded thanks to cURL (a la Homebrew) would be enough.

@lyrixx sure, but I think that CLI is the main target of this repo

[Pym]

I use Dash on a daily basis but I think this package is still interesting! An offline mode would be nice too 👍

[ogizanagi]

I use PsySH and the doc / man & introspection features to get the PHP documentation from CLI.

[joelwurtz]

Don't think having composer makes sense. Why not using public registry of Docker since it's already a requirement ?

[willdurand]

@joelwurtz yes, reason is: my initial idea was to install the PEAR package with composer.

[ubermuda]

I like this. I often work offline and I'd rather not have to leave my terminal to get documentation, so this is a big win for me.

That being said, as much as I love docker, requiring docker makes it awkward to use on OSX...

[willdurand]

@ubermuda I know.. Things are:

1. I don't have a working PEAR setup and don't really want to have one;
2. Composer can fetch PEAR packages but it does not fetch this one (this is a known issue, because it does not download all files, and it is a "wontfix");
3. Versioning 40M+ in a Composer package is... awkward to me.

So, all in all, I don't know what to do with this package.

[ubermuda]

Well it still has value as a docker container, but like @joelwurtz said, you can drop the composer package I think :)

[tqmz]

I use pman to open man pages straight out of Vim via k. It's great.

A docker dependency for installing pman is quite a heavy dependency.

Composer is not an issue at all imo, as almost every PHP coder will have it installed anyways.

In fact I think providing pman as vendor binary might obsolete the reason to add another directory to $PATH. The $COMPOSER_HOME/bin is a more generally usable $PATH extension (which I found already set up on my system, too).

So +1 for this repo, and +1 for resolving the docker dependency.

Edit: after reading the README file again Docker actually makes sense, it may at least be more universally satisfiable than (different ways of) using PEAR.

[greg0ire]

@tqmz: I think so too, see #2