Re: XML_Xpath

Dan Allen wrote:

I apologize for the excessive delay in getting a new version of this package released. You will find that the current CVS is now released as version 1.2.1 and should fix the reoccuring problem that developers were having with this package.

great thanks

On another note, I really hope that the PEAR developers can look at the possibility of "picking up" projects and working on them when the lead developer goes awall. Just because the lead developer doesn't have a lot of time to donate, doesn't mean you have to start dropping packages. As much interest as I have in other things, I enjoyed playing with this package again as it is a very easy way to rip information out of XML files when you just don't have the time or energy to play with a full fledged parsing engine. I find that it is plenty fast for reading XML config files or pulling data in scripts, and perhaps it is performant enough to use continuously as well.

Yes I think we should always find ways to keep packages in a working condition. However please note that the concept of PEAR has always been to give a lot of trust to the maintainers and not have other people mess around in their code. With PEAR QA we will figure out a good compromise for this. Of course new maintainers could also be added if the existing maintainer disappeares. But this is all stuff that is needlessly complicated. The best and easiest is if the maintainer takes care of things. And if cant then he should announce that so we know whats going on. How should we know whats going on with each maintainer if they dont tell us? How should we know how they feel about people messing with their package? Some get pissed off, some ask for it, for the most part we just dont know! Back to the original topic: Dan what are your plans for the future? Do you have more time to dedicate to your package maintanaince? Are you open to adding new maintainers to help you out? Do you want to look for such a person yourself, or do you us to help you there? regards, Lukas Smith smith@backendmedia.com _______________________________ BackendMedia www.backendmedia.com berlin@backendmedia.com Linn Zwoch Smith GbR Pariser Str. 44 D-10707 Berlin Tel +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax +49 30 83 22 50 07