Posted by howa on 11/04/07 04:08

On 11 4 , 2 40 , "Sanders Kaufman" <bu...@kaufman.net> wrote:
> What it *is* good for is newbie or SOHO programmers who need to develop
> complex projects quickly, but who don't really know jack about programming.
> PEAR is training wheels for PHP programming.

This may be true a few years ago, now we have a sort of frameworks,
cakephp, zend framework etc, Pear is too loosely coupled to be a base
for a complex project.

The worst is: most popular packages did not use Pear (smarty,
phpmailer, etc)

However, this is not true for Perl, i.e. I didn't ever use a package
which is not from CPAN.

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