Re: Misunderstanding on what PEAR is

Robert Kelly wrote: > > Just food for thought, > > If you are developer and have PEAR compliant code, why can't you just start > your own sourceforge.net repository? You'd be able to drop all your code in > there, distribute from there and allow others to download from there? Is > there something wrong with NOT being part of the PEAR repository? > > I've seen this argument twice now and wonder about PEAR-folk not having a > standard response to it. The main issue here is keeping a consistent name space. Today we have one package repository, if we start adding more data sources (I guess you mean like Debian's APT?), we will have to deal with name space conflicts. What if the "HTML_Table" package contains completely different code on two different servers? I'm open to something like this in the future, but now we'll go with one source to reduce the system's complexity. Then when we have some experience, we may start thinking in this direction. - Stig