PHP7 upgrade - missing pecl packages - does it matter?

[Stuart Wright]

My host has upgraded our sandbox to PHP7 for testing. It's all looking good. They did, however, send me this message:

It’s currently running on PHP 7.0, but i had trouble getting hold of the pecl packages and was not able to get the following:
No package php70-php-pear-HTTP-Request2 available.
No package php70-php-pecl-igbinary available.
No package php70-php-pear-Net-URL2 available.
No package php70-php-pear-Net-URL available.
No package php70-php-pear-HTTP-Request available.
No package php70-php-pecl-sqlite available.
No package php70-php-pear-Net-Socket available.

I have no idea what these do. Is it safe to assume Xenforo doesn't need them?

 

[Mike]

Most of those are actually PEAR packages (which is actually PHP code, whereas PECL is C), but no, XenForo doesn't use any of those.

 

[Stuart Wright]

Most of those are actually PEAR packages (which is actually PHP code, whereas PECL is C), but no, XenForo doesn't use any of those.

Magic, thanks, Mike.

 

[rdn]

Or just run requirements test script.
To verify you have all the needed modules.