Re: Overlay approach

Quoting Paul Meagher <paul@datavore.com>: > There seems to be two main approaches to developing PEAR (forgive me if > misinterpret Eric Raymond's dichotomy): > > The cathedral approach: > The bazaar approach: Yes, and I agree we can have both, but I have a slightly different interpretation. I might be mis-remembering my "scripture" * here, but I think the theory has also been advanced that often, projects - the linux kernel is an example - that start out with a strong vision and relatively few people (cathedral style), and then, once there is something to "display", open the bazaar (i humbly apologize for inflicting that metaphor on you) are successful, and stronger for having that strong vision. I think right now there is not quite enough of PEAR for it to be a successful bazaar. But people are working on it. > There are alot of potential contributors who have no desire to learn CVS, > especially if they come from the Windows or Mac side of the world This is completely off-topic, but I just wanted to point out that I'm writing this on a windows 2000 machine that also happens to run php, perl, python, and has a large amount of source code checked out onto it via cvs. And I first ran linux on a macintosh clone. So there. (hey, I said it was off-topic). -chuck * cathedrals, religious wars... please, no one take this seriously =) -- Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org> "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the chicken!" - Baby Blues