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by lmcnearney 4835 days ago
"The bit about dependencies is most interesting to me. In PHP, the problem of dependencies is offloaded to Apache, and by extension the server host. PEAR helps a lot, but even that’s not guaranteed to be available everywhere."

Most modern PHP projects (PHP 5.3+) are using namespaces, autoloaders, and Composer to handle dependencies.

http://getcomposer.org/