Re: pear.php.net look and feel
| From: | Daniel O'Connor | Date: | Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:14:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: pear.php.net look and feel | ||
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>
> PEAR2 needs evangelism. That's been one of the main issues right from
> the start.
>
> I personally see one of the issues for adoption is the relatively slow
> pace at which distributions update their PHP. It'll be a few years
> from now that people will have 5.3 in most of them.
>
> That's a huge drawback -- e.g. on RoundCube we were leveled for
> requiring 5.2 even though that has been around a good, good while. I'm
> working on a plugin repo for RoundCube currently and I can't build it
> on pyrus because no one would use it then. Maybe not no one, but not
> the majority of people.
>
> In general, PEAR lacks some community support. We (Christian and
> myself) worked on the planet code a while back and set up a site on
> http://planet-pear.org. If anyone wants to be aggregated,
> please let
> me know so we add your blog's tag/category-based PEAR feed there.
>
Neat-o-rama, it's ALIVE AGAIN!
Note to self: link to this from front page.
Till - http://clockwerx.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/pear