Re: Something about PEAR policy
| From: | () | Date: | Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:06:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Something about PEAR policy | ||
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In article <3B5A0976.250BB60@fast.no>, Stig S. Bakken wrote:
>After all this is open source, if the rules or practice are too strict,
>someone will fork or start a similar project, which I would consider a
>failure for PEAR.
Why would it be considered a failure? If one thing leads to another good
thing it should make the original coders proud, even if the forked project
thinks the original code is bad or lacks x, y or z.
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>So to get out of this mess we need to define PEAR more clearly. Maybe
>we could have avoided this situation if I had been more into writing
>philosophy instead of coding in the beginning, but today that's not my
>job anymore, it's ours.
I think a lack of documentation is the real problem. Most coders are not
familiar with the api documentation that is currently used.
Regards,
Hans
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