[dev] Re: [sork] passwd mysql problem

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:

> Alright, there's a lot of confusion here.

Nah, just a small amount of confusion.
 
> 1. First, the actual problem: there was an incorrect call to
> $registry->listApps() in setup.php that caused applications that weren't
> 'notoolbar' or 'active' to not show up as valid only when we were checking
> $app, so you couldn't configure them. They did show up in the list, though.

Okay, makes sense.  Didn't know it was a bug, just reporting it was broken
(for some unknown to me reason).

> 2. registry.php.dist, in HEAD, marks nearly every single application as
> 'active' by default.

Okay, haven't played with it lately...

> 3. setup.php shows all apps that are present (regardless of status) and that
> have a conf.xml. So people will not be confused by things they didn't
> install, because things they didn't install don't have conf.xml files
> present on their system. Only apps that are actually installed will appear
> in the menu.

Okay.  I don't really have a problem with that.

> 4. You should be able to configure any application, regardless of its
> status; otherwise, you would have to have an application accessible to users
> just to configure it - when it'd be broken before its configured. I won't
> budge on this one.

I also agree 100% with this.

> -chuck

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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