Re: Why PHP ? - devil's advocate

Sorry! Didn't mean to offend! And I think I came across too harsh there. For the record (and archives), the support I've gotten from the PHP community has generally been much stronger than that of just about any other dev community I've been in. The *downside* I was referring to was far more directed at other libraries (pdflib, gd, freetype, some other minor but necessary ones, etc.) And to balance out my criticisms with a postivie note, Brian the freetds guy has been *more* than helpful and supportive of his product and our project, bending over backwards to help out in sticky situations, even when freetds wasn't the culprit. Going from the PHP list to other lists isn't always as helpful as possible tho, leading to frustrations I outlined in the previous email. Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: <snipped for the archive> eek! This stuff gets archived. Mentioning my name in the same sentence > as Bill Gates is not very nice. > > > -Rasmus