[PEAR-DEV] Re: [dev] Re: Horde Browser.lib and Crypt_PGP

[Damian Fernandez Sosa (DESC)]

I've cc'd the PEAR List 


Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Jon Wood <jon at jellybob.co.uk>:
> 
> > I'm not neccesarily saying that, I just don't see the benefit in having
> > to packages in there that do essentially the same thing, I'm not hugely
> > fussed either way though.
> 
> I don't have an intention of tossing the Horde one into PEAR proper, really.
> I'm hoping to eventually get all of the Horde libs available as packages,
> manageable with PEAR tools, but that's a rather different proposition.
> 


If you make those packages generic and submit to PEAR your work will be used by
even more people than if you make it horde specific.

If your work is seen/used by more people, you have more chances to receive more
patches and features than making it horde specific. 
Don you think.


That's my opinion.


HORDE has a lot of incredible functionality that is so hardcoded in the
Framework that should be useful to so many projects! But That functionality
can't be used!

I have contributed to PEAR to make horde better (The Auth methods of Net_SMTP,
corrections in Mail class, A LMTP class (which is not part of PEAR yet), I
developed also an IMAP Protocol parser (and a class to access imap and all its
extensions - quota, acl,namespaces, uid+, auth methods,etc) hoping that class
allow people that hav'nt imap support in php to use horde

I think The Mail class (the idea) was born in horde and now is a critical part
of PEAR and a lot of people use it and gives thanks to you  (and Jon Parise) for
that class (and Net_Socket).


Why don't you let it happen with other parts of HORDE?



The same problem happened with the Pear proposal Crypt_PGP:

I need to mass-create pgp keys for my imp installation  (without user
intervention). I created a pear class based on the excellent work of Michael M
Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu> 

I was thinking that this code could be useful to everybody and also to HORDE
(if the class is accepted I will make a patch to HORDE's pgp.php to allow to use
the PEAR class instead of the actual code)

I also think that if Michael accepts the leadership of the code must belong to
Michael M Slusarz (he make the 95% of the class code) and If he like I let the
class authoring to him. In that way, Horde can use PGP functionality as today
and other projects also.



That's my opinion.



















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