End of Life for PEAR Installation Method · Sebastian Bergmann
▻https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/wiki/End-of-Life-for-PEAR-Installation-Method
Today most users prefer to use a #PHP Archive (PHAR) of PHPUnit or #Composer to download and install PHPUnit.
We are taking the next step in retiring the #PEAR installation method with today’s release of #PHPUnit 3.7.35 and PHPUnit 4.0.17. These two releases are the last versions of PHPUnit released as PEAR packages. Installing them using the PEAR Installer will trigger a deprecation message on every execution of the commandline test runner.