Re: Re: Marketingq

On Fri Dec 05, 2003 at 01:0012AM +0100, Lukas Smith wrote: > > 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 .. What's speaking against that? > > 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. Strong -1 on that. We shouldn't make ourself look ridiculous with this whole marketing thingie. (Listing PEAR packages on Hotscripts definitively is ridiculous.) -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/