Re: Re: The PHP Platform

Cool! This is about as worked up as I have ever seen Jim. ;) -Rasmus On 13 Apr 2002, Jim Winstead wrote: > Ken Egervari <ken@positive-edge.com> wrote: > > Usually that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attritude is just the > > thing to make a technology less and less useful and eventually it'll > > be antiquated. Eseentially, it is already is. Don't get me wrong, > > just because it's out of date doesn't mean it still isn't useful. I > > just think that even in an opensource community, there would be > > leaders and people looking towards the future. > > so, should we gather the cardinals and elect you pope now? > > > Like I said, I think its time PHP started moving forward and developed > > a new vision for itself and the community. > > yes! the new build system that sascha introduced wasn't a move forward. > stig (and the large cast of others) working on building the pear > infrastructure aren't moving forward. rasmus is standing firm as he > looks at integrating the gd library more tightly into php. andi (and > others) are blocking progress with all that work on the new zend engine. > i wish derick and jani would stop building things like the build tracker > at qa.php.net to make the qa process go smoother. i wish yasuo would > stop working on the postgresql and session extensions and just give it a > rest. that crazy andrei, creating things like the aggregate and overload > extensions -- he needs to stop holding us back! don't get me started > about wez and all that damn streams stuff! (do i need to continue?) > > people *are* looking forward. they're leading with code. what do you > think we're doing here? waiting around for someone to tell us what to > do? > > jim > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >