Re: Re: [metabase-dev] MDB news

On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:16:40 -0300 Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> wrote: > It depends on your point of view. If every time somebody challanges the > reasoning of your decisions you consider that is bashing, so that should > be bashing for you. To me it is constructive criticism because it > provides you opportunity to reflect on the impact of your decisions. If > you think you decisions are always right and therefore they should not > be challenged, even less by Manuel Lemos, that certainly tells a lot > about your maturity. Do no start psychilogy again, please :) > Which is just a real shame because AFAIK Smarty is the best PHP only > templating solution because it is based in smart meta-programming > concepts that overcome performance limitations of the tradicional > template packages. Smarty is one the best PHP only templating solution with meta-programming. Not the best templates solution, or not a template solution for what I consider as template, no 'intelligence' inside them. > How many more great packages and great developers do you want to keep > our from contributing to PEAR? Do you follow this list ? let count them. > I have long time planned to provide a self installing package format for > PHP Classes. It doesn't seem that PEAR tgz based format is good enough. > I am more inclined to adopt RPM because it is a world standard for > packaging software. This will still be subject of further study. I would > have yet to see PEAR tgz based format evolve up to the capabilities of > RPM to consider adopting it. afaik there are plans to extends pear package features, better deps support by example. I like rpm too, except they are not really cross platform, the pear installer running on the top of php is cross-platform. > This statement proves my point: everything I say, you contradict. Return this point to yourself, once. pa