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Justin Koivisto <spam@koivi.com> wrote in message news:<_hLxc.1731$m3.85715@news7.onvoy.net>...
> R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:
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> > For DB abstraction, I personally prefer phpBB's DB
> > abstraction than PEAR's as it is more fast and easy to handle. For me,
> > it is really a surprise that PEAR is attracting PHP saintz.
>
> If things ever slow down enough for me, I've been thinking of jumping on
> board with some of the PEAR projects to help development along. I think
> that it's a great resource (now that I've discovered it). In many cases,
> all that is needed is some efficiency tweaking for the PEAR package
> classes. Granted, with the amount of abstraction and inheritance in the
> PEAR library, things will be a little slower than other methods may be,
> but (as in my case) the performance trade off vs. the developing,
> debugging and deployment cycle is worth it.

Thanks for your comments. I'm not complaining the contributors.
But, unfortunately after working with DB and SOAP packages, I lost the
spirit especially their error trapping mechanism is not upto my taste.
Anyway, I hope, the project will evolve as many people are been
attracted towards it.

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