the Hive
Interesting that I was just mentioning Paul Jones and his various PHP related efforts, he has just announced a new one centered on PHP5, the Hive. Unfortunately I’m missing the initial PHP5 wave at the moment, waiting on more widespread deployment (hosting services, etc.). However given the quality of Paul’s other efforts and that Hive is the successor to the Yawp/Savant code line I will be watching very closely.
In his Hive announcement Paul stresses comprehensibility, which is definitely a positive trait in his other PHP efforts, and a very worthwhile goal that much of the PHP ’script’ world should aspire to. I’m glad he brings up this point in reference to Pear, as that is mostly what kept me from using Pear code for quite some time. Until you get over the Pear hump, Pear code is difficult to visualize. That is it isn’t apparent what Pear can offer you (or even what actually comprises Pear), what pieces/files you actually need if you think an element you’ve seen might be useful, or how to actually get the elements. Much of this could be remedied (disregarding actual package code complexity) at the Pear web site level, which suffers from a lack of higher-level information or documentation.
