Re: [PHP4BETA] php and MS SQL Server....

Hello rasmus, On 02-Mar-00 02:43:05, you wrote: >> Although, I didn't mean to develop Metabase to be integrated in a >> officially sanctioned PHP code repository, I thought the intention of Stig >> to avoid duplicate work on a common database abstraction layer package was >> great. But now it seems that he didn't mean to use my package anyway. >How do you know he didn't look at it and used a lot of your concepts, or I always believed that it was his initial intention. >perhaps looked at it and just didn't agree with the approach? The fact >that he approached you and asked you about it and even looked at the code >shows that your stuff was definitely not ignored in this process. Stig is >a bright and busy guy. He would do anything to make his task easier. He >doesn't need the personal glory, nor is he out to screw you personally. So why, talking about duplication how bad duplication of work is and then end up doing precisely that? >> I just hoped that if PEAR is not going to be a open repository like CPAN >> where anybody can upload their code to avoid others unnecessarily >> duplicating efforts, they stop announcing that it will be that way. >CPAN enforces some restrictions regarding naming, and packages that really >suck get removed. This is very similar to what PEAR is going to >be. There will be some quality control and we will enforce unique naming >to cut down on confusion. This is good for the end user and doesn't >restrict people from contributing unless their stuff is deemed to not work >or be badly named. Except that you are imposing that contributed code be Open Sourced for you to take control over it! >I think you are going out of your way to look for problems. Nah, I just think you are misleading people to grab their contributions. Regards, Manuel Lemos Web Programming Components using PHP Classes. Look at: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/?user=mlemos@acm.org -- E-mail: mlemos@acm.org URL: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ PGP key: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ManuelLemos.pgp --