What if.... we could remove pcntl

[OwenMelbz]

More of a plead than anything for sanity.

But what would be the chances of removing ext-pcntl requirement from the composer json - maybe see if it can be listed as a recommended to remind people.

I only ask this as when developing on not Linux, it’s a royal pain in the butt having to remember to do —ignore-platform-reqs every time.

I’ve always believed that one of Laravel a strongest suits is the great development experience. And this one is definitely the opposite :(

I know technically it’s wrong to remove it, but maybe it’s the lesser of 2 evils punishing those who are not on Linux xD

[timopruesse]

You can define something like this in your composer.json:

"config": {
    "platform": {
      "ext-pcntl": "7.2",
      "ext-posix": "7.2"
    }
  }

Where 7.2 has to be the PHP version you're using. When you use PHP 7.1 it should be 7.1 etc.
Then you don't have to do —ignore-platform-reqs every time.

[driesvints]

Gonna close this as a duplicate of #170