Re: Duplicated/redundant package for PEAR::Message -> PEAR::Crypt_HMAC
| From: | Jon Wood | Date: | Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:36:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Duplicated/redundant package for PEAR::Message -> PEAR::Crypt_HMAC | ||
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On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 21:30, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:14:59 +0200
> "Lukas Smith" <smith@backendmedia.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > Removing is not an option, as
> > > 1) it was downloaded by 267 people who might now depend on it [1]
> >
> > This cannot be a reason. Otherwise we would be setting a horrible
> > precedent.
>
> This is a valid reason. And you (the community) let a far more horrible
> precedent recently set here.
>
> The problem was while the package has been commited and released,
> removing now is not a good solution, like removing the most horrible
> precedent I never seen in PEAR.
>
There is a big difference between this, and Sigma... while as far as I'm
concerned Sigma was a bad decision as well, it was backed by a majority
of developers, whereas with this, no one was asked.
Jon
> pierre
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