Re: AW: [PEAR-DEV] BC breakage results

Hi! Jan Schneider wrote:

I think that slot-based solution is better than mandatory installation of different versions into different directories. Thus we let users decide what to do with the packages. One can install the package into slot 1, test it, then upgrade the package in the main slot. Or one can install older version of the package to the slot 1 and install the package that depends on it. More power to the users.

Yeah, cool, especially for those users (and there are lots of them) who don't even understand the meaning of include_path. Remember: while developers are *using* PEAR packages, end users have to *install* them. And you can't compare these users with geeks running Gentoo.

"Create a system that is usable even by idiots and only the idiots will use it." Forgot the source of the quote, but this is mostly true... Such a user will not go wildly upgrading his packages. He will install an application (Horde, perhaps) and won't tinker with it while it works. And this application can have dependencies on specific versions of the packages. More power to the *power* users, then.