PHP, PEAR, PEAR2 and Namespaces

Hello all! The PEAR Group and, I, your fearless PEAR President, wanted to publicly recognize that the namespace question has been finally answered thanks to the hard work of Greg Beaver and the rest of the PHP internals group. Now that Namespaces have been settled and will be in PHP 5.3 with a solid implementation, it's time to look towards the future. As you all know, PEAR2 is germinating. Helgi and Greg have been hard at work on Pyrus. Travis has been working on an RFC that outlines how Namespaces will be used in PEAR2. Subversion, Continuous Integration, the list goes on. What we're announcing today is that PEAR2 will be making full use of Namespaces. The PEAR Group will be polishing off Travis's proposal and presenting it to the community soon. From there it's full steam ahead on PEAR2! P.S. Internals, I have included you in this email because we wanted to say thanks for all efforts put into namespaces over the past few years and the results are fantastic :) -- Slan, David