Re: Re: Play nice! Re: Savant/Flexy/Foo template engines

Hi, Hans Lellelid wrote:

Lukas, I think you should be a stronger leader -- nay, dictator, of PEAR. I'm serious. I've leveraged lots of attacks on PEAR becaues I felt it was exclusionary, but this is only valid if PEAR aims to be something like CPAN -- a collection of libraries where there's little cost of entry, little code requirements, and no real big picture. I like the idea of a free & open community, but perhaps that belongs somewhere else. It seems to me more & more that PEAR really wants to be cohesive, and in that case I think there needs to be more control, not less. People are welcome to create their own more open repositories for PHP code if they don't like PEAR policies.

As was already discussed here, there are two possible approaches to improve PEAR's quality: 1) Open the gates for competitive packages; 2) Turn PEAR into a library of carefully designed and implemented classes. Approach 2) sounds better (of course!), but it will require far more *brilliant* developers with *lots* of time to dedicate to PEAR than PEAR currently has. And some brilliant developers that PEAR doesn't yet have will *never* join unless approach 1) is taken. Of course, there is Yet Another approach: try to galvanize the corpse. You know, elect QA team, elect the Dictator, this kind of stuff. P.S. I'd like to run for the position of a PEAR Dictator as well. I think I have an unpleasant enough personality to qualify.