Re: yet another template
| From: | Alex Black | Date: | Thu, 08 Nov 2001 19:19:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: yet another template | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.pear.dev |
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> There is a lot of truth in your words.
yes
> The purpose of PEAR is to offer highly reusable components. PEAR is
> NOT yet another hotscripts.com, where you can get every application
> you can imagine.
yes!
> PEAR will be _the_ place to get components for (enterprise) web
> applications that are written in PHP. It will present methods for
> accessing RPC services, for accessing databases, for working via
> HTTP connections, for parsing XML, for talking via SOAP, for
> creating authentication system, for calculating dates etc.
yes! (well maybe not the auth or maybe we should talk because we're
doing that but.. :)
> But I think it is a bad idea to make PEAR a place, where you can
> find all different kinds of applications like the ones, that have
> been mentioned in the last days on this list. For such applications
> there is enough room on SourceForge and it's friends.
yes!
> Again: PEAR is IMO not intended to be a repository for that kind
> of applications, that you can on SourceForge, Freshmeat, Hotscripts
> etc.
Yes!
(I'm sure you can glean my thinking by now...)
-a