[dev] IMSP Backend for Turba / Horde

[Michael Rubinsky]

I've finally finished getting a Turba driver working for an IMSP server 
backend.   I had some general questions as to how best to incorporate it 
into the Horde framework in general.

As it is written now, I have all the IMSP driver code in  turba/lib/Driver 
and I added preferences to Turba to allow the user to use a different 
name/password for the IMSP server if needed.  Everything works well like 
this.  However, I was thinking of adding a horde preferences driver for an 
IMSP back-end as well.  My question is, would it make more sense from a 
design standpoint for me to put all of the 'core' IMSP library code inside 
the horde framework  (maybe even separating out the IMSP server 
authentication code and putting that into framework/Auth) and changing the 
drivers to include the code from there?  That way, it would be easier for 
someone to do something like  add a new authentication method to the IMSP 
code. (Right now, I only have plaintext and CRAM-MD5 written).  If this is 
the case, I would also move the 'alternate login' preferences I added to 
turba to horde.  Maybe under the 'Remote Servers' option group?

Any input is appreciated.

Of course, I will make all these additions available to the project...if 
anyone is interested that is!

Thanks.
Mike


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Michael Rubinsky
TheUpstairsRoom Consulting