Re: Template Proposal

Quoting jim winstead <jimw@apache.org>: > well, as of right now, i think the label of 'pear developers' is > mysterious and special. who are they, and what makes their core library > the standard one? I think Tomas had a pretty good answer; it's the people who put the work in and maintain it. Kind of like the PHP Group. > hey, if people think i'm wasting their time, just tell me to bug off. > but i see a lot of really loaded terms ('pear developer', 'standard core > library') being thrown around that signal to me that there are people > who presume a world that is a lot more black-and-white than it is. Yes; arriving at concise understandings and definitions is worthwhile. Asking, for the nth time, why it isn't _this_ way, when the decisions were made years ago and there isn't a reason being offered, just "I don't like it this way, I wasn't around when you made this decision, you should change it" is what's unproductive. Also, you can go the other way on the black/white thing... there are people who want the world to be purple, when it can only be red, blue, or striped. -chuck -- Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org> "What was and what may be, lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we ever have is here, now." - Ursula K. Le Guin