Re: Re: IT[X] status update and a reminder

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan Richmond, el domingo 23 de febrero a las 10:32 me escribiste: > ] 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 +1 too. - -- LUCA - Leandro Lucarella - Usando Debian GNU/Linux Sid - GNU Generation - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ E-Mail / JID: luca@lugmen.org.ar GPG Fingerprint: D9E1 4545 0F4B 7928 E82C 375D 4B02 0FE0 B08B 4FB2 GPG Key: gpg --keyserver pks.lugli.org.ar --recv-keys B08B4FB2 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ El acto de desobediencia, como acto de libertad, es el comienzo de la razón. -- Erich Fromm. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+WSPvSwIP4LCLT7IRAh+wAJ0VgjyaPD1FyJfS3qHF+WUKdyjPywCdHrlW IAe6wNvnmjX9Pnv37kM2gqM= =LKo+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----