> I don't think it belongs in PEAR at all. I could see the logic behind
> distributing it with PHP, but don't see any reason to distribute it in
> pear...
Except that isn't this what PEAR was for all along? A collection of classes
and add-on modules to extend PHP's functionality?
I don't have anything against the Midguard folks personally, but isn't
distributing Midguard with the main PHP distribution implicitly saying PHP
supports/prefers the Midguard content management system over any other
similar system? What happens when someone else wants *their* system to be
part of the main PHP distribution? What criteria are we basing these
decisions on?
There is also the license issue (which I know has been discussed before).
But the first thing I read on the Midguard website is:
Midgard will always implement an OS development to publishing
solution, future releases will include APIs for implementing
commercial applications.
Are we going to run into trouble down the road when this happens (and end up
having to take Midguard out of PHP anyway)?
[There is also the fact that Midguard accepts donations and collects
membership fees ... how is that going to change if Midguard is part of the
main PHP distribution?]
And as for Alexander's comment:
Shouldn't that means that almost all extensions from ext/
directory could be classified as PEAR thing?
My opinion is that yes they *could* be classified that way, but it doesn't
make a lot of sense. PHP users don't have a choice of which module they
want to use for Blowfish encryption, for example ... so mcrypt is part of
the standard distribution. Perhaps the PDF modules should be, since we have
several. I don't know.
But, to me at least, Midguard seems to be code that is a "layer above" what
I would feel belongs in the main PHP distribution. In the same way the DB
abstraction class is (even the C version of it) ... and that they both
belong in PEAR.
Just my 2 cents (and given without intent to offend).
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