RE: [PHP-PEAR] RFC on merge of PHPLib and Pear

[email protected] ("Jeffrey A. Stuart") Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:30:11 -0500
Newsgroups php.pear
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Parise [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:28 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PHP-PEAR] RFC on merge of PHPLib and Pear
>
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> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:20:10PM -0500, Jeffrey A. Stuart wrote:
>
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> I'm just afraid that people will start viewing PEAR as a large
> collection of classes in varying stages of development.  There is also
> the danger of users writing code that references the classes in
> PEAR/PHPLIB/, which (as I understand it) will only be their temporary
> location.
>

Ok... valid point... maybe some of this doesn't have to happen in the Pear/PHP
Repository... :)

> As a side issue (and I've mentioned this before), PEAR really should
> have its own source repository.  I don't really like the idea of PEAR
> being distributed with the PHP releases.
>

That's a GREAT point... what do we have to do to move pear into it's on
repository?

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> Chuck and I just happen to agree on a lot of project management and
> engineering points.  We're also pretty vocal about them.  For the most
> part, my opinions, at least, are based on years of experience with the
> Horde project (both coding and support).

That's fine... don't get me wrong, I'm GLAD that people are commenting... :)
You're coming up with things that I hadn't thought of. :)  Which in the end is
WHY I posted this email. :)

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Jeff Stuart
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