Re: [phplib] [Fwd: [PHP-PEAR] Merging PHPLIB into PEAR]

> Kristian Köhntopp and Ulf Wendel approached me today and told me that > they have decided to merge the existing classes and modules of > PHPLIB 7 and those that are currently beeing worked on (for PHPLIB > 8, which will now never be released) into PEAR and asked me to > coordinate efforts in order to do so. > > I hope everyone is happy with this step, at least I am. :-) Why? > Until now there were two standard repositories one could use and now > there is the opportunity to join the strengths of both. > Surely not many care about it, but for me this is surely a source of great happiness (and in fact, I almost immediately jumped in php- pear list... greetings to all people in there...). I invested much in PHPlib, and I built on it a good deal of my work. I like its way of building things (although the first impact was a little hard). In the last months, PHPlib development was starting to slow down... I always though of it as a symptom of "maturity", not "decadence", but I feel that this fusion could both relive PHPlib development and jumpstart PEAR's one. To me, PEAR has always seemed really attractive, but it never quite grasped me, mostly because I found difficulties in finding info about it. Surely I'm also biased on this, so PEAR people please don't roast my butt... now I'm gonna sit down quietly doing all the RTFM that I can (feel free to point me to all available docs about PEAR!), and I eagerly wait for the chance to constructively contribute to this project... Best Regards Fabrizio /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Fabrizio Ermini Alternate E-mail: C.so Umberto, 7 faermini@tin.it loc. Meleto Valdarno Mail on GSM: (keep it short!) 52020 Cavriglia (AR) faermini@sms.tin.it