Re: Re: Prepping for Ubuntu Lucid & Pushing PEAR2, Pyrus
| From: | Martin Jansen | Date: | Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:34:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Prepping for Ubuntu Lucid & Pushing PEAR2, Pyrus | ||
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On 04.06.10 10:45, Ken Guest wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Martin Jansen <martin@divbyzero.net> wrote:
>> Is it Pear or PEAR now? Both spellings are used on the site, which is
>> BTW lovely.
>
> It's an abbreviation, so it should be PEAR (all-caps).
Even if we don't consider PHP Extension and Application Repository to be
a correct description of the project anymore, we should in my opinion
stick to the current spelling because that is what people having been
using for years. Confusing them with a new spelling for no good reason
is pointless.
- Martin