Re: Re: PHP 4.3.0 (Win32, zip) not bundled with PEAR?
| From: | Christoph Grottolo | Date: | Wed, 01 Jan 2003 20:02:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: PHP 4.3.0 (Win32, zip) not bundled with PEAR? | ||
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Katana wrote:
>> Yeah, i know about this, but i really thought that PEAR should
>> be a fixed part of PHP distributions. So, will this be fixed?
> It looks like since pear is not working (correctly ?) on win, it is
> not part of the win distrib...
PEAR ist working on windows, only the installer script has some problems.
I understand the reason for not delivering it, but why is this called 'beta'
quality on http://pear.php.net? Why is nothing mentioned in the
release
notes (until now, PEAR Beta had been delivered with the releases) of the
distribution?
The status, PEAR wants to achieve (be better than CPAN) also lives from
reliability - the system itself has to be stable and transparent, even if
some of the classes are only in beta quality, others already discontinued.
For me, this 'never-know-what's-going-on-next' is still the weakest point of
PEAR, along with the thin documentation of the core system (imagine you're a
windows user and then install PEAR acording to the official docs). This is
specially bad because many classes have now grown mature and usable.
I hope the developers keep an eye on this in order that PEAR doesn't
continue as an insider tip - it would deserve much more.
Christoph