Re: RE: Zend +Paypal = PEAR::SOAP??

Quoting Justin Patrin <papercrane@gmail.com>:

You're forgetting here that PEAR is not just a committee (in fact I rarely if ever see it as such), it's a community. Most of us think of PEAR as "ours" in some sense and we like to know what's happening with it. PHPClasses or hotscripts is a different matter. Those are just collection places for anything. PEAR is a group of people working toward an ideal and each person becomes a part of that as they join. Just because we don't have a trademark doesn't mean that we should be left out of any decisions / news. A quick e-mail to the PEAR group or PEAR-dev list about this article would have not only been prudent but the right thing to do. Simply the fact that we're having this discussion is proof of that. *We* (and by we I mean the community of developers that is PEAR) feel slighted here not to have been included. A quick note from Chuck would even have been enough.

If this is truly the view of the PEAR community, not just Davey and Justin, then I will simply recommend that we avoid PEAR code for future professional use. I can guarantee you that the PR people will not understand and the time involved on all sides is simply not worth it. -chuck -- "But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy." - John Quincy Adams