Re: On PEAR quality issues and natural selection

Hi Greg, Thanks for clearing this up. Greg Beaver wrote:

Hans Lellelid wrote:

I think it's different -- but maybe I don't understand the channels feature. What I'm talking about is a network of repositories that anyone can create. PEAR will never be that will it? This is the

This is the channel idea. None of this is implemented and will change when the implementation is better understood. You will set a search path of channels pear config-set channel_path pear horde zzoss someotherrandom and then you can run pear install Log and get PEAR::Log if zzoss log exists, you can go pear install zzoss::Log

Brilliant. I apologize for the misunderstanding of this. Yes, this is a great feature. Of course, it then still raises the question "why use propose a package in PEAR?" -- e.g. if someone creates not-pear.net where anyone can create a package w/ deps etc. and not need to go through any voting procedure to get it approved, what's to stop everyone from just adding their packages there? Especially if not-pear.net provides a better issue tracker, better release management tools, CVS repositories, etc.... Hans