PEAR usage

I have been talking to leading developers of several projects, including phpBB about using PEAR as the database abstraction layer amoung other things...I just wanted to report back to you the feedback I got and the reason the answer is still NO. PEAR needs to be able to work without having the libraries in the include path (since it is not possible to modify this setting at runtime). The reason for this is that many webhosts have not yet become acquainted with PEAR and therefore do not have it installed. Here is my solution...the PEAR installer should run though the libraries and somehow resolve the paths, or perhaps we should think of a way for the libraries to be able to call themselves without requiring PEAR to be in the include path... People need to be able to run PEAR libaries without them being in the system include path...if that is done, then PEAR can be embedded in applications. Let me know what you think. Dan -- ________________________________________________________________ Daniel Allen, <dan@mojavelinux.com> http://www.mojavelinux.com/ ________________________________________________________________ There is no such thing as a casual knowledge of xslt, either you know everything about it or you are sitting in the creek. ________________________________________________________________