[horde] Horde5 Whitescreen

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:

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> Hi,
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>> There is a difference between a required dependency and an
>> optional dependency. Pear/DB is not *required* for Horde to
>> function. There are features in Horde - such as the METAR weather
>> block - that have external dependencies. (In this case, it's
>> dependent on PEAR/Services_Weather and THAT, in turn, has an
>> optional dependency on PEAR/DB.
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>>> It's conceivable - relating to Jan's point - that pear/DB isn't
>>> required because I imagine there are Horde installs out there
>>> with no DB backend (although I can't imagine it's many).
>>
>> No. PEAR/DB has *nothing* to do with Horde running a database or
>> not. That's Horde_Db. The only reason we use Pear/DB is because of
>> other PEAR libraries that use it (Services_Weather) and we have no
>> control over their codebase.
>>
>> In
>>> addition, I don't see it in any of the errors/warnings I had when
>>> I installed Horde..
>>
>> Because it's not an error. You didn't install any packages that
>> require it. Note the line that pear/Services_Weather was not
>> installed.
>>
>> On that note - how serious is the warning:
>>> Package "pear.horde.org/Horde_Core" dependency
>>> "pear.horde.org/Horde_ElasticSearch" has no releases
>>
>> Not serious at all. There is currently no code in Horde that uses
>> this.
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> I think all has been said by now on how Pear/DB is not required for
> horde. But that doesn't address one problem: Admins cannot easily
> prevent users from using specific portal blocks. (They could delete
> them after each and every update though).
>
> Should portal blocks with special requirements be delivered as
> separate pear packages?

No, we already disable them if the requirement is not fulfilled, at  
least as long as we can detect that.
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Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
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