Hi! > You seem to think that any opinion which differs from yours is wrong, > and you try to dismiss that opinion by classing it as "abusive". I'm > afraid this lack of tolerance for different opinions is becoming more > and more prevalent in this forum, and I fear it will have a detrimental > effect on the whole PHP ecosystem.
Tony, the issue is not your opinion - which, by now, we are amply familiar with, and to which you are fully entitled. The issue is the way you are expressing this opinion - in a combative style bordering on personal attack. I would suggest that if you are interested in your opinion being considered and supported by others, to amend the tone as to be more concentrated on technical merits and less on flame. > That is a valid opinion. Consider the fact that the Windows operating > system was only accepted by large numbers of users as it had a "modern" > GUI and not a command line interface. You try and release a new piece of In fact, Windows does have command-line interface, moreover - Microsoft recently invested significant resources into making this interface more powerful and flexible. Moreover, many of the professional programmers routinely use command-line tools on Windows. It is true that average Windows user does not spend much time in command-line, but we need also to remember that PHP developer is not exactly an average Windows user. > give them the right to force it upon the rest of the world. Most users > are much happier with a GUI than CLI, so not providing a "modern" > interface is showing disrespect to those users. That depends a lot on how you count "most users". If you talk about Windows users, sure, you claim may have merits. If you talk, however, about Windows users *that are PHP developers* - I'm not sure this is true, at least without some factual backing, and it's in no way obvious. In any case, we are a volonteer project, which means we release what project participants build. If you or someone else will produce suitable GUI for composer, etc. - we can discuss it. But stating that somebody unknown should produce some software is useless - it only gets produced when specific people volonteer their time to do it. -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
