Obsoleting PEAR.php

Hi, Well, ok, I guess I'm either starting a flamewar, or rehashing something that's already been decided. Poo Tee Weet. One of my major problems with PEAR is the underlying framework. Nearly every class in PEAR seems to extend from the PEAR base class, when its really not required for most of them [1]. The end result of this is *slower* code that is a part of the framework. I suggest that for now we start removing the usage of the PEAR class from the large majority of code in PEAR. This should speed up the code considerably (no extra overhead). There are some further optimizations that can be done (mostly relating to PHP5), which I guess I'll bring up at a later point. -Sterling [1] With PHP5, this is even less necessary -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Unknown