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By nicopepe on
Hello,
I am new in drupal and i am still trying to have a global view of all things provide by your nice CMS. I found many thing which exist both in Drupal and Pear. Apparently, it seems that Pear librairies are more sophisticated than Druapl one (form_builder, Dataobject, html_table, ...?). In another hand when i installed drupal, some Pear librairies were required. So my question is why drupal doesn't make a more extend use of pear librairies ? This could make module developpement more easy, fast and with more option, and larger developper communauty !
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ease of install
we don't currently require any PEAR libraries ... the hesitation to use PEAR happens because we introduce install and maintainence problems for admins. with PEAR there is the potential for dependency hell.
contrib module authors are free to use PEAR if it makes their lives easier.