RE: [PEAR-DEV] Re: IT[X] status update and a reminder

] From: Christian Dickmann [mailto:chrisdicki@gmx.de] ] Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 5:54 AM ] ] IMHO we will not accept it as a fork. We had some discussion ] and don't want a fork in PEAR. PEAR aimes to have not many ] concurrent packages. Forks are even worse. To me a fork implies two versions being developed. Since IT hasn't been updated in many, many months, and is essentially frozen, IMO it's not really a fork, it's a new version. Alexey's version addresses IT's *undocumented* quirks and is far more intuitive to the new IT user, which is of much greater import now that PEAR has gone public. Just look at how often the {$1} behavior shows up in the bug tracker! With PEAR public, IT has the potential to have many more new users than there are old users. For those who are old hands with IT, and are using it in deployed applications (myself included) it provides a means of maintaining backward compatibility by simply flipping a few switches, if I choose to upgrade. If I redeploy old apps elsewhere I still have the option to install the 1.x version and for new development I can use the new features of Alexey's version. Sounds like the kind of choice I like as a developer. So, as an IT user, I'm +1 for Alexey's version as HTML_Template_IT[X] 2.0 -Alan