[dev] Re: [cvs] commit: horde/lib Auth.xml Category.xml Cipher.xml Data.xml Form.xml Group.xml Horde.xml MIME.xml Notification.xml Prefs.xml SQL.xml SessionHandler.xml Token.xml

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:

> One, it will be more confusing for ordinary users trying to modify the
> code since not everything will be in one place any more.  People are
> used to greping in one place, etc.

Possibly, yeah. I don't think this is enough of a problem to make us not do it,
unless people disagree with other benefits of packaging, though.

> Second, it will perhaps make it slightly more difficult for people using
> a web hosting service to install, or maybe even stop them completely if
> they don't have .htaccess overrides or some other way to configure this.
> They won't be able to add to the default system PEAR area...  So, instead
> they will have to install a local PEAR and configure their stuff to use
> this local PEAR instead of the default one (if that is even possible for
> them to do).

We require some non-standard PEAR packages now, so I'm not sure that this adds
*so* much burden. Also, this will make it easier for hosts to keep a set of
Horde packages around for all of their users to add, so it may even be *better*
here.

-chuck

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