Re: On PEAR quality issues and natural selection

> > One might even add a public rating [system] Here are some (negative) insights with CPAN's public rating system. I think this is of interest in this discussion. The article is "CPAN Ratings for Perl: Possible Problems" http://www.advogato.org/article/761.html My own opinion on the rest of the issues of today: I am in favour of opening up PEAR and go for competition between modules. I come from Perl and CPAN is open. Everybody and their dog can add a module. In the end, word of mouth, published articles and mentions in books highlight the better modules from the less useful ones. What really annoys me about PEAR is the terrible state that the online documentation is in. If packages had to compete, programmers would have a natural interest to supply and publish good documentation, to get their module known out there. Hans