Re: Re: Prepping for Ubuntu Lucid & Pushing PEAR2, Pyrus

PEAR doesn't have (in pear.php.net, anyway) applications OR extensions. Only reusable components. To the acronym is pretty 50% inaccurate. Regards, Bill On Jun 4, 2010, at 6:44 AM, Michael Gauthier wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 12:34 +0200, Martin Jansen wrote: >> 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. >> > > The change from PEAR to Pear was my initiative in the design, and for > the reasons Helgi mentioned. As a bonus, Proper Words look nicer in text > than ACRONYMS. That said, it's a relatively small design element and I > don't mind much if we stick with the ACRONYM version. > > I tried to find examples of other projects that changed from an acronym > to a word and could only find Gaim (now Pidgin). They changed mostly for > legal reasons which do not apply to PEAR. I though this sort of change > was more common in open-source projects, but I haven't been able to find > evidence to back it up. > > Lastly, I'd like to keep the logo all lower-case because it looks good. > It's a graphical element so I think we have the flexibility to change > case here. > > Cheers, > > > Mike > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >