Re: Bugs mailing list

Joe Stump wrote: >> Didn't mean to start a holy war here guys :-) > > Not a holy war. I'm just forgetting that Open Source is a bureaucracy as > opposed to a business. This is so far outside of the scope of what > PEAR's *core competency* is it's amazing it's even being discussed to > me. In fact, it's been disallowed that *applications* be created, > submitted and distributed via PEAR for some time now (the exception > being pearweb; even the PEAR channel code is on a separate channel). Not quite true - PHP_CodeSniffer, PHP_LexerGenerator, PHP_ParserGenerator, phpDocumentor are all examples of apps. PEAR_PackageFileManager_Frontend_Web and PEAR_Frontend_Web, PEAR_Info are all examples of web-based apps. The only prohibition has been on *frameworks* which is a particular kind of application. > What I'm saying is, as a consumer of PEAR, I find it sad that brilliant, > core PHP developers are proposing chasing the bug tracker holy grail > rather than making me cool ass PHP libraries. As a lazy PEAR developer > I'm saying have fun; I'll be sticking to creating more PEAR code for now. I'm not sure who you're referring to by "brilliant core PHP developers" since none of the people who develop PHP internals have replied to this thread :). Greg