BinaryCloud should be let into PEAR with others as well.... my 2cents

I don't understand what it would hurt to add binary cloud, I only see how, in the end it would help, by making PEAR seem to many as something more worthwhile. It seems that ultimately what stands in the way of widespread use of PEAR in the first place is a lack of ease to use the system and set it up. (I am speaking as someone who is not a seasoned programmer but a web designer who found himself in a position where he had to learn web programming). PHP itself has met with great success, I would argue primarily due to the support (an online manual that is extremely useful), as well as its flexibility and ease of use. PEAR on the other hand, while valuable, and I see a lot of potential for it, I don't see it gaining widespread use until people who are not necesarily coming from a programming background (such as myself) see it as easy to use, impliment, and see a real use for it. As it stands there are other database abstraction layers out there, there are other classes available that give the average developer all they would need, so their it no real need for PEAR for most people unless they are a die hard coder, or programmer, or are just sympathetic to the cause. However, make room for application frameworks for binary cloud and the like, and keep those separate somehow from the core of PEAR, but at least allow them in somwhow, and now you have something that many, I mean MANY people would be very interested in. I don't see why we could not somehow make room for other application frameworks like binary cloud. After all, if they are based on top of PEAR it only makes sense to me, especially if someone is willing to spend the time to port them over. At the least, I argue it could not hurt, only help in the long run, both those interested in developing binary cloud and those interested in developing PEAR. As it stands we have all this effor going in two different directions, seems such a waste. Personally I would love to see it. But that is just my two cents. Alan T. Miller > -----Original Message----- > From: Sebastian Bergmann [mailto:sb@sebastian-bergmann.de] > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 1:05 PM > To: PEAR Development Mailinglist > Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] [dev] new pear class for expiring > sessions'peruser'based. > > > Stig Bakken wrote: > > I don't really have any strong opinions on this, so I'll go with > > the majority. > > Okay, since we decided not to add application frameworks like > PHPLIB to PEAR I'm strongly against adding binarycloud. > > -- > Sebastian Bergmann Measure Traffic & Usability > http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ > http://phpOpenTracker.de/ > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: pear-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: pear-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net