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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install pie

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Linux

Fedora dnfverified · 92%

sudo dnf install pie

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · pie · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

overview

Package summary

PHP Installer for Extensions

Project links

Commands and aliases

pie

history

Project history and usage

PIE, the PHP Installer for Extensions, is PHP's official installer for third-party native extensions and the recommended successor to PECL.

Project history

The PHP Foundation announced PIE's pre-release on November 19, 2024. Development was commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency to provide a modern alternative to PECL and make extensions first-class PHP ecosystem packages.

PIE was designed as a PHAR-distributed tool resembling Composer, but its installation target is PHP Modules and Zend Extensions rather than a project's PHP library dependencies.

Adoption history

PHP's official manual now recommends PIE in place of the deprecated PECL installer. PIE-compatible extensions are published through Packagist, aligning native-extension discovery with familiar PHP package workflows.

How it is used

Developers use commands such as `pie install vendor/extension` to locate an extension through Packagist, obtain source or a Windows binary, build when necessary, install it into the selected PHP runtime, and enable it through the appropriate PHP INI mechanism. PIE also supports downloading, building, inspecting, and selecting extensions for alternate PHP installations.

Why package nerds care

PIE modernizes an unusually difficult package-management boundary: installing compiled PHP modules into a selected PHP runtime. It applies Composer-style package identities and constraints while retaining the platform-specific build, binary-selection, and `php.ini` enablement work required by native extensions.

Timeline

2024-11-19: The PHP Foundation announced PIE's pre-release.
2020s: PHP documentation deprecated PECL in favor of PIE.

Related projects

PECL is the deprecated extension installer that PIE replaces.
Composer inspired PIE's package-oriented workflow and remains the dependency manager for PHP libraries.
Packagist provides the extension repository PIE searches for compatible packages.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for pie. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 5 platform targets.
Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`pie`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-11-04

manager version1.5.5

manager updated2026-10-30

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/php/pie

infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/php/pienone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:pie
Version	1.5.5
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/pie
Homepage	https://github.com/php/pie
Repository	https://github.com/php/pie
License	BSD-3-Clause
Source archive	https://github.com/php/pie/releases/download/1.5.5/pie.phar
Last updated	2026-10-30T14:37:12Z
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	php
Bottle	available (on arm64_golden_gate, arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_tahoe, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	pie
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

dnf95%

pie 1.4.10-1.fc46

PHP Installer for Extensions

https://github.com/php/pie

sudo dnf install pie

License: BSD-3-Clause AND MIT
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: noarch
Source Package: pie
14 dependencies
3 provides
normalized package name match
Matched by: Pie

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package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/pie.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment
pkg.so package database
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