Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/03/07 18:20

howa wrote:
> This is quite interesting,
>
> PHP is so success, but Pear as an offical package, seems to be a
> little bit weak.
>
> i have developed PHP for many years, and can easily do my job without
> Pear, e.g. I use Smarty, PHPmailer, adodb etc.
>
> However, In the old day when I use perl, cpan is a must for perl
> developer.
>
> But now even zend framework didn't use Pear, what's wrong with that in
> fact?
>
>

Absolutely nothing. Like all packages, PEAR has its uses, but it's not
useful in all circumstances.

Personally, I don't use Smarty or adodb in PHP. And I don't use
PHPMailer for eimple emails.

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