Re: Package proposal: Mail_Mime (alternative)

Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 02:10:01 -0400 Greg Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net> wrote:

you've been around PEAR long enough to know that none of the core developers care about fairness

you are wrong (and I remember you are part of the core PEAR developers now ;) ). :)

For the rest, you are right to remember that a package can fit somewhere else than PEAR. This was the main point of the email, yes.

But you are wrong to think we should accept a package only because it is well done and/or usefull. There are cases where we should not have more than 1 package, especially for such features (or DB and MDB). I do understand this policy, and I have respect for what works, even if I express a little annoyance now and then :). I do think there needs to be a home for the other projects that are still well-written and useful. No offense to the other repositories out there, but nothing approaches the ease of finding packages and installation that pear and Horde have. I think a repository that uses the pear installer but has more relaxed rules about acceptance (i.e., only requiring quality code and documentation) would complement PEAR quite well, and possibly reduce the length and acid content of threads on pear-dev when a package is not accepted. Then there would be the official repository, and another place to search if you need a specific solution that isn't quite implemented by a pear package.

Greg