Re: future of PEAR (was [PEAR-DEV] [Call For Votes] PHP::Fork)

On 10 Nov 2003 at 21:47, Tobias Schlitt wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 21:35, Alexey Borzov wrote: > > > What exactly prevents adding this "community process" or whatever to > > the current PEAR? > > What actually prevents us from creating a new pear to even better > handle upgrade to PHP5 and repair some definite technical issues, > etc.? Sorry Tobi, sorry Lucas to say so but: I strongly believe that having a "PEAR2" will not change anything. It's possible to make many packages work with PHP5 also (it just needs a bit more testing). And for the serious cases where you might have problems to use all functions of your class with PHP5 there area also ways to solve these issues - technical ways. In my eyes what we need are good decisions by the community / PEAR group and having everybody support / follow these decisions. E.g. if you have a look at the installer-proposals Greg made some while ago ... if these make it into the core then we would have versioning- support with multiple trees (each major version can coexist etc.). It's not that I want to start off this discussion right now - but make clear that its even possible to do the same things people like Toby and Lucas intend with the current architecture and with the skills that community programmers contribute. I would really appreciate if we could stop talking about branching off a new PEAR2 (or whatever it might be called) and invest the time needed for those discussions into finding ways to improve our current architecture. Many proposals have already been made (Greg, I think you know which one's I'm talking about :-))) - so maybe we should dig them up again and bring them into real life? Think wise / twice ... Stefan Disclaimer: Didn't intend to offend nobody by this post anyhow but plainly express my thoughts.