Hard to deploy if you also install extensions from PECL right now (probably slammed).

same here.

`[00:06:03.209] pecl install -f amqp igbinary redis imagick` :sad_face:

Yeah I got repeated error for igbinary (and then find out I didn't use redis in this project and could remove it).

yeah, not surprising but not great

switch to PIE

Is Pie (which I learned about it today) a painless migration from PECL?

My only experience is within Docker images, but yes. Replace the pecl call with the equivalent pie call and you are done.

Disclosure: I'm a PHP core team member and also contributed some code to PIE.