Re: PEAR's mission statement - let the fun begin

Peter Beckman wrote: > A library I wrote last night, following the coding standards and phpDoc > stuff and includes a PHPUnit unit test, I would have hoped to be in PEAR > already. I'm still waiting for my account to be created, and then I fear > the whole "Draft/PEPr" process is going to take another 1-4 weeks. By > then I'll have moved on, probably won't care about it being in PEAR, and > the community loses out on some potentially useful software, written for > FREE, and could have been available to benefit all. Sorry about the delay ! Just approved your request. > IMO PEAR's mission should be a mirror to CPAN -- easy installation of a > myriad of useful modules. I think PEAR already has the infrastructure to > be that, but the process for including new modules is too complex with too > many steps and too many people (or people who don't seem very responsive > in my experience, still in its infancy). > > Now given that I haven't been involved in PEAR as a developer at all > before 2 days ago, please take my advice and opinion with that nice chunk > of salt block. > > To sum up: "Long time user, first time caller. The PEAR PEPr process > seems (or is) slow and arduous compared to CPAN." > > Beckman > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Beckman Internet Guy > beckman@purplecow.com > http://www.purplecow.com/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >