Re: Coding standards

Quoting Martin Jansen <mail@martin-jansen.de>: > People come up again and again and tell us that it keeps people > away from contributing because our coding standards are to > strict. Should we ignore them and miss some probably great > contributions? If you are talking about what has been referred to as the 'core', which is what I thought PEAR was in the first place, then yes. If they're too lazy to match a well-defined, consistent style, it probably says something about their code, too. If you're talking about a CPAN-like collection of anything and everything, well, who cares? It's already a mess. Sorry, but if this keeps coming up every 3-6 months, that _alone_ is going to make PEAR worthless just for being bogged down in trivia. We said "we're making this decision and sticking to it" over a year ago. Again maybe 6 months ago. What makes you think anyone will stick with it this time? -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