[Request]: PIE (PHP Installer for Extensions)

[SHJordan]

Prerequisites

• I have searched all issues/PRs to ensure it has not already been reported or fixed.

Criteria

• Reasonably well-known and widely used (e.g. if it's a GitHub project, it should have at least 100 stars and/or 50 forks)
• English interface (or at least English documentation)
• Latest stable version
• Full version (i.e. not a trial version)
• Fairly standard install (e.g. uses a version-specific download URL, no elaborate pre/post install scripts)

Name

PIE (PHP Installer for Extensions)

Description

PIE is a new installer for PHP extensions, intended to eventually replace PECL. It is distributed as a PHAR, just like Composer, and works in a similar way to Composer, but it installs PHP extensions (PHP Modules or Zend Extensions) to your PHP installation, rather than pulling PHP packages into your project or library.

Homepage

https://github.com/php/pie

Download Link(s)

https://github.com/php/pie/releases

Some Indication of Popularity/Repute

As stated on the xdebug installation page, is currently the easiest way to install extensions on windows, since PECL is a nightmare. Makes installing xdebug/imagick a breeze.

Instructions on installing it on windows can be found here.

[SHJordan]

Tip: you can add a pie.bat file to make it work on PATH:

@echo off
php "C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin\pie.phar" %*

Mine is pointing to Composer folder, but it should be replaced with the scoop one when this is taken.

So this way it can be called as pie --version and should output something like:
🥧 PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) 1.3.2