RE: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [PEAR] Re: [PEAR-DEV] Marketingq

> From: hfuecks@phppatterns.com [mailto:hfuecks@phppatterns.com] > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:56 AM > How about a "Complete Idiots" guide to PEAR, with full in's an out's of > installing PEAR and using the package manager(s) (inc. Web interface) on > Unix and Windows, for those that need their hands help (including why PEAR > has an installer in the first place). The manual today is clear but can > see points where a beginner would stuggle (for example it assumes they've > got the php executable in their path: "php go-pear.php"). Yeah the manual will never have the idiots guide focus .. so it would be great to have one separate (might be able to steal some from the manual though). > Other than that, how about listing packages on Hotscripts et al? They get > alot of traffic and are popular with many PHP coders. Yeah I think we once had the topic of doing automatic submissions to such sites. Not sure if we really need this or if this deludes the whole PEAR thing. I mean if we manage to be the first site people check we might hurt outselves if people can also go to hotscripts to get the same information. They will stick to their habit of checking hotscripts instead of changing their habit to first check PEAR. Regards, Lukas