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

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

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.

It is certainly not my view (not that I am currently a contributing person). I'm quite happy to see people investing in making the soap library better. Yes, it "would be nice if investors choose to let the community know what they are doing", but to make an issue of someone investing time and money to make some code better, and get a bit of PR off of it, is fruitless. Shane