Re: course paper about PEAR - help

On 25 May 2004 at 10:23, Lukas Smith wrote: > Karlis Vesters wrote: > > > I have written you - I am a studen from Latvian University who is writing a > > course paper about PEAR. > > If its in english it would be great if you can make your findings > available to us. Totally agreed. Might be a good starting point for newcomers and a general overview. If you have specific questions be sure that you'll be helped here :-) > > And now I have a few more questions: > > > > 1) have you any ither presentations ( graphs or other types) about > > different dependence of PEAR classes (global (between big classes) and local > > (for each big PEAR class). > > I am not aware of any such graphs. Might be very interesting. We do > however list the package dependencies as well as what packages depend on > a given package on the package homepage. Maybe someone could even dump those information from the database, to make graph-generation a bit easier. Karlis, would this help you? > > 2) is PEAR project growing (number of people who works on the project) and > > why there is so less documentation even on a most used classes > > This is probably due to the fact that PEAR has mostly been used by other > PEAR developers. This is changing more and more however since PEAR was > officially launched. Documentation is a task often done by users rather > than developers in opensource. There is a bit of a chicken and egg > problem here, which we are trying to overcome by lowering the barrier to > entry into writing documentation. Karlis, if your getting a bit an "inner view" of PEAR and find out problems like this - maybe you'd volunteer to participate in improving the docs once you've finished your paper? pear- doc@lists.php.net would be the right address to contribute regarding docs. Kind regards Stefan