Re: Expect more!

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Martin Jansen wrote: > On Fri Feb 14, 2003 at 04:1951PM +0100, Lukas Smith wrote: > > I am just saying that we should focus on quality over quantity. Actually > > quantity has dangers that should not be ignored. It is hard for people > > to figure out which package to use. More bugs will show up with less > > developers there to fix them. Contributions will help less users, > > because they are distributed among more packages etc. > > I agree. But how should we realise that? If we start saying "No, we > don't accept your package, better merge it into XYZ." people will > loose interest in the contribution, because of the new changes they have > to apply to their code. IMO if this increases the quality of PEAR packages it's definitely the way to go. The one thing I don't like about CPAN is that it's just a mess of packages, with no common API. Everybody does as he sees fit. I think PEAR can be much better than that my some control of the major PEAR developers. Derick -- Stop mad cowboy disease! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------