Re: On PEAR quality issues and natural selection

Hans Lellelid wrote:

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....

This would be good for PHP - I am not married to any site. PEAR might be able to benefit from the release management tools, and other code, so I see no problems here at all. In fact, this is one of my hopes - competition will benefit PEAR directly. It's all open source, after all. PEAR will find a way to be the official repository though, and this will also be good for PHP. Greg