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docs: Move all documentation, CI, and tooling to use `pie` instead of `pecl`

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Issue type
Documentation
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Quiet
Tech stack
php

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No specific files or tests are named. Search the documentation, CI configuration, and tooling for pecl references; update gRPC installation guidance and automation to use pie while keeping protobuf on pecl, then verify the relevant checks and remaining references.

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Description

Thanks to https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/42784 we can now install the grpc extension using pie instead of pecl:

pie install grpc/grpc-php-ext

This is because gRPC now maintains a new repo https://github.com/grpc/grpc-php-ext which publishes their extension package to https://packagist.org/packages/grpc/grpc-php-ext

NOTE: This is only available for gRPC. THe protobuf extension has NOT added PIE support yet. Support for protobuf is being tracked in https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/21808

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