pear vs pecl?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i just got immersed in PHP and i've run across the PEAR repos for
adding PHP extensions, but i'm kinda confused about the difference
between the "pear" and "pecl" commands since they really seem to be
doing much the same thing.  what's the subtle difference?  i'm sure
i'm just missing the obvious.  thanks.

rday
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