[dev] Ulaform release and future

[Vilius Šumskas]

Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org> rašė:

> Quoting Vilius Šumskas <vilius at lnk.lt>:
>
>> Given that all Ulaform patches I had locally were commited I wanted  
>> to discuss where to go next for the release and a (possible) future  
>> of Ulaform.
>>
>> I have converted Ulaform to new H4 API including all the legacy  
>> methods and deprecated libraries.  I have extensivelly tested all  
>> the funcionality except for PEAR embedding of forms on external  
>> pages. Everything works and at the current state I think Ulaform  
>> can be released as beta. What else need to be done to make Ulaform  
>> release appear on the web and on pear.horde.org ? Probably  
>> CHANGES/package.xml need to be updated with most important stuff?  
>> As I don't really have a Horde git access I will leave this last  
>> part for someone with proper release management skills :) Anything  
>> else?
>>
>> Also as Ulaform uses Horde_Forms extensivelly I remember there was  
>> discussion in the past about a new Horde_Form library which would  
>> be more suitable for modern web. What is the status of that library  
>> and is anyone still interested in it? I have some spare time so can  
>> look into it. In fact it would help me a lot for my internal  
>> company purposes.
>
> Here's my vision:
> I'd like to see Ulaform be separated into two layers. One is kind of  
> the current app - form generation and handling of the results. Much  
> better/easier embedded forms, easy embedding of forms on Facebook,  
> etc., should all be added as well.
>
> The other layer would take the old Horde_Form library and rewrite it  
> for Horde 4, based on Horde_View, in a way that gives us a generic  
> form generation/rendering engine. We should be able to  
> programmatically create (say, in Nag) the same kind of forms that  
> the UI for Ulaform creates, use the same shared rendering/layout  
> code (though layouts obviously need to be fully customizable).

That's similar vision I have.

Any idea about the status of Horde_Form which was developed during  
Google SoC? I mean is it worth continuing the work which was already  
done, or the code is too old and too far behind git so I'm better  
rewriting everything from scratch?

I have looked at Horde_Form in CVS incubator but see that most of the  
code was moved to hatchery. Was it merged to horde-git master?

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   Vilius