[dev] Horde 5?

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> 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.

I'd love to see that. Especially concerning Horde_Imap_Client. I've  
seen people in a large project go for eZ components for IMAP  
functionality - and wondering a while later why there were issues. And  
I even told them to look at Horde_Imap_Client - but at that point  
Horde 4.0 was only on the horizon and not yet released. It would have  
been the far better choice in the long run though.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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