Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 06/25/05 17:32

* Catalin Trifu <catalin@isp-software.de> :
> I also tend to stay away from PEAR, which is kinda bloated for my
> taste, except the Log package.

<rant>
I hear that a lot on this list, and I don't understand the reasoning
behind such comments -- perhaps because nobody offers any reasoning,
only the opinion?

I'm a PEAR user, and I've found the packages anything *but* bloated.
Granted, I only use a subset of PEAR, but that subset has made mycoding
easier. I use DB, Log, Mail, Mail_MIME, HTML_QuickForm, Cache_Lite, and
Pager daily; additionally, we use custom PEAR error handlers to catch
errors generated by these packages, log them, and display custom error
pages. If I'd had to write the functionality I have readily available in
these packages, I wouldn't have a job right now. They've helped me meet
numerous deadlines.

If somebody could offer some *constructive* criticism of PEAR -- PEAR as
it is TODAY, not "3 years ago, when I last tried it" -- these comments
would have more weight. As it is, I feel they're just FUD based on
ignorance.
</rant>

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