Re: PEAR DB copied to pear/
| From: | Edin Kadribasic | Date: | Thu, 07 Feb 2002 22:55:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PEAR DB copied to pear/ | ||
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> >I've repeated this several times, but here we go again: IMHO in order for
> >PEAR to be universally accepted it must go standard class library way,
not
> >cpan way. Reason is simple. If I have to distribute my application that
uses
> >PEAR I don't want to write 10 page manual, "and then you download that
class
> >... ". Instead I would like to be able to assume that if there is PHP on
the
> >machine there is PEAR as well.
>
> Would you like to download a PHP distribution that contains > 9MB
> of PHP code? I don't.
The whole of PEAR's current repository fits into a 1MB tarball. But that's
beside the point. The question is whether PEAR wants to become what LIBC is
to C, STL to C++, or what cpan is to perl.
Edin