Re: Publicly listed channels (was [PEAR-DEV] Considering package proposal: Cgiapp)

Hi, Greg Beaver wrote:

Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: One of the political tasks that PEAR needs to work out as PEAR 1.4.0 reaches maturity is how channels will be added to the official channel list. I suspect that it would be best if there was a simple form at pear.php.net. Something along these lines:

Although I try to avoid discussions like these, I'd just like to express, that I'm in favor of a list of channels on pear.php.net for the following reasons: - A user gets the installer from us, so we should tell him, where to get compatible packages. If we publish a list of channels on any other site, then we should at list place a link to this site on pear.php.net - If PEAR does not point the user to my site (e.g. PAT), why should I point the user to PEAR from my site. I could as well bundle all PEAR packages my packages use and let him download everything as ZIP from my site... - We are linking to horde since Mon Jun 9 06:47:47 2003, and now that we have a convinient way for users to actually install and resolve dependencies we should remove this? If yes, then we should remove the link to Horde ASAP, as they do not even provide a channel, yet. No offense to Horde, they distribute great packages. Just my 2 cts, Stephan