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

On Jun 9, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Alexey Borzov wrote:

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;

Or at least crack them a bit. Before Lukas raises the straw man of PhpClasses and Hotscripts (as he will :-), let me note: the competitive code would still have to pass peer review and match the coding standards. If it gets voted in, great! If not, try again later with a package that gets more votes! (A review of voting standards might be required in that case.) A change to PEAR Group's policy on "competitive packages" does not spell the end of PEAR. To say so is to defend PEAR Group, not to defend the quality of PEAR. -- Paul M. Jones Savant: the simple alternative to Smarty for PHP. http://phpsavant.com/ DB_Table: build RDBMS tables and XHTML forms in one PHP class. http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=DB_Table Yawiki: a collaborative online documentation system. http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=Yawiki Yawp: a single-file foundation for PHP applications. http://phpyawp.com/