Re: PEAR mirror

Matthew Kendall wrote: > > "Tim Perdue" <tperdue@valinux.com> wrote.. > > > How far away is PEAR from reality? What would it take to > > make a mirror of it on PHPBuilder? > > > > I think this makes more sense than re-building the library on > > PHPBuilder. > In short, it is the searching, cataloguing, feedback and rating systems that > represent the added value of the index, rather than the storage and > distribution of the scripts themselves which is trivial. These are the > features to concentrate on in a new library. > mail address you subscribed with. Certainly all good points. I don't know if ratings will ever be clicked enough by knowledgeable people to be useful, really. There is no staff that runs PHPBuilder and there's no way to "enforce" anything especially on the lines of code quality. Until just a couple months ago, PHPBuilder used the PX code exchange, but that was missing a lot of features and was never really developed anymore. I think PEAR makes a lot of sense, rather than having everyone do their own thing. In looking at a few of the existing posts, pear wants to be CPAN-like. CPAN is nice, but as I went drilling through one of the mirrors I found the interface to be pretty much boring and lacking a feature that I like about the new snippet library on PHPBuilder: it doesn't look like you can easily add multiple versions of a script. Am I missing something there? The real questions I had, was, when will this be ready to go and what can I do to make it roll ahead? I think in addition to PHPBuilder, SourceForge would be a good mirror of PEAR, as we already do a CPAN mirror. Tim -- Founder - PHPBuilder.com / Geocrawler.com Lead Developer - SourceForge VA Linux Systems 408-542-5723