[dev] Horde 5?

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> I'm still currently against this, but am keeping an open mind. You  
> do make good points, I just don't feel they justify taking such a  
> radical step as splitting our repository. I'll obviously adapt to  
> whatever the majority viewpoint ends up being. :)

Something that hasn't been mentioned before: not all Horde libraries  
are the same.  Things like Horde_Mime_Viewer, though theoretically  
something that could be used outside of the framework, for all intents  
and purposes will never be used that way.

But I do believe that other components would benefit from living in a  
different codebase.  I don't know how well ActiveSync would work  
beyond the rest of the framework, but that is a package that doesn't  
exist anywhere else out there.  And I can guarantee that people would  
be much more likely to debug/contribute if they had the ability to  
only checkout that repo vs. checking out the entire Horde codebase.   
It has nothing to do with size/download times/etc. - it has to do with  
complexity.  I know I immediately lose interest in poking around a  
foreign repository if it is not immediately apparent what I am looking  
for.

I've always wondered if Imap_Client would get more support if I moved  
it out into a separate repo that could be more visibly shopped around.  
  That library is way better than any of the crapball IMAP packages on  
Horde, and tons better than the duct-taped, feature starved,  
performance deficient libraries other opensource PHP webmail projects  
maintain.  At this point in the development, the major issues tend to  
be broken IMAP servers, and this kind of feedback necessarily needs to  
come from others since my personal server usage is limited.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]