RE: [PEAR-DEV] Expect more!

> -----Original Message----- > From: Kouber Saparev [mailto:kouber@saparev.com] > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 3:37 PM > To: pear-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PEAR-DEV] Expect more! > > Sure, there's no sense to have 10 packages that do the same thing, except > if they all use 10 different logics, which leads to different > speed/performance/behavior. Well recently we had a few packages that were accepted just because they had implemented a certain feature that an existing package did not yet have, but there was not really a different approach or even goal. A different API is not enough IMHO for example. Adding a package with the same approach just because the existing package doesn't have a driver for a certain backend is also not a good reason IMHO. The differences should be very dramatic before I would think it makes sense to add another package that addresses the same needs. > I think It's up to the developers, to decide when to add a new package, > and > when to merge. Well I don't think that this is wise. Obviously the decision about if to merge is up to the developers. But the alternative is not a new package! If all the package has to offer is some candy and a different API. Regards, Lukas