Re: Expect more!

> Surely all of this comes down to just one question: What is PEAR? > > a) Is PEAR trying to be the CPAN on the PHP world, > b) Is it a proprietry class library owned and controlled by the PHP group, > c) or is it something else? > > At the moment, my perception - and the perception of other PHP developers I > talk to - is that the answer is b). And it's not an answer that the > developers I interact with like. It's not. PEAR is a CPAN-like repository with high standards. And there's nothing proprietary about the code in PEAR, it's all open source. > I think the PHP world needs a CPAN equivalent. It hasn't done Perl any harm > ;-) It also needs an official class library set - one more professionally > behaved and along similar lines to the Java Community Process. This has been discussed before as PEAR Foundation Classes or something similar. No idea where it's at though. -- Richard Heyes