Re: Help with submitting my first package

Peter Beckman wrote: > Yep, that's good. :-) Why isn't it in the pear repository? > > With Perl, I'm know that if it exists, it is likely in CPAN. With PHP, > it's often not in PEAR. Heck, I've written some things for PEAR and the > process to get it into pear is grueling and badly documented (or I can't > find the documentation on how to do it, step by step). Hi Peter, PEAR does not try to be CPAN in that the goal is to have consistently reliable, high quality packages rather than to offer everything under the sun, but it is hard to argue that if a package doesn't even exist that it is of a higher quality :). I and many others have noticed problems with the process of getting packages into PEAR. We're re-evaluating how we make big decisions like the way packages are accepted and other things of this nature with an ongoing referendum. Hopefully we can make some substantial improvements very soon. Of course, if you have any specific changes you'd like to see, we welcome patches to the documentation (peardoc/ in cvs.php.net) or infrastructure (pearweb/ in cvs.php.net). The website, for instance, has a newly created roadmap at http://pear.php.net/bugs/roadmap.php?package=pearweb that shows the direction we're heading on that end, at least for the near future. Thanks, Greg