Re: New Package: HTML_DB

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Alan Knowles wrote: > >development lists (and hence knowing that the build process on pear.php.net > >is FUBAR for reasons I can't fathom). They will simply say "PEAR doesn't > >have what I need" and go and roll their own. > > > This is not really anybodys 'fault' - peardoc2 is currently queue'd up > to be built on pear.php.net, however it is in the queue behind the core > php manual - which is taking about 9 hours to build each language (eg. 3 > languages a day). At that rate, It is likely to be built about every 2 > weeks. (I think It's about 2-3 more days from completing the phpdoc > build at present). - and if there are any errors in the build, you have > to wait 2 weeks to try again!! (AFAIK) Eeeew. Can't it be split off onto multiple machines? Hell, I've got a few machines doing SFA with big net pipes - if someone gives me scripts to run, I'll be part of a distributed PHP/PEAR documentation effort... > There are some issues with performance of the PHP build system/hardware > etc., this is being worked on - but remember unfortunatly nobody is > getting paid to do this.. I quite understand the "no pay" aspect - I'm an active Free Software developer myself. But I've seen multiple references to PEAR as an official repository of wonderful software, with all these assurances of quality and whatnot. The actions of the PEAR community do not tally with these statements. If you can't back up the claims... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16