[dev] Names that conflicts with PEAR

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Blues <blues@ds6.pg.gda.pl>:

> Horde tries to provide Auth class. The same name is provided by PEAR, and
> if someone uses PEAR and Horde together it can make some confusions.
> This patch changes name from Auth* to Horde_Auth*

Can you provide a practical example where this becomes a problem?

> Now question - horde uses some parts of PEAR. Why does not use Auth (and
> other) class from there? If something is missing is that class should
> added there, not in horde's own classes.

Many reasons. One is that our Auth class was around well before PEAR had 
one. Another is that I don't believe that PEAR should provide an 
authentication class. But the people running PEAR these days disagree.

-chuck

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