RE: [PEAR-DEV] Expect more!

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > 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. > > Something that's cohesive will always be better. Something that's designed > from the ground up to be cohesive will always be better still ;-) At the > moment, I'm going to play devil's advocate and suggest to you that PEAR is > not designed to be cohesive. > > There is one pitfall to be really careful of. How do you prevent PEAR from > becoming a clique? Because once the world thinks you are, you'll become > irrelevant to them. I know a good person to help us with that, the PHP marketing guru Mr Lemos :-) Derick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ JDI Media Solutions http://www.jdimedia.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------