[horde] Horde5/Kolab integration

[Jens-Uwe Mozdzen]

Hi Gunnar,

thank your for looking into this.

--- geschrieben von wrobel at pardus.de ---
> Zitat von "Jens-U. Mozdzen" <jmozdzen at nde.ag>:
>> [...]
>> 1. framework/Group/lib/Horde/Group/Kolab.php provides a class  
>> "Horde_Group_Kolab" which is referenced in  
>> ./framework/Core/lib/Horde/Core/Factory/Group.php (called  
>> "Horde_Core_Group_Kolab" there). Unfortunately, the former file  
>> somehow isn't included during runtime; I worked around this by  
>> inserting "Include_once(  
>> '/usr/share/php5/PEAR/Horde/Group/Kolab.php');" into the latter  
>> file. But I won't believe that this is the proper way of doing it.  
>> How should that be handled correctly?
>
> We use autoloading. So a reference like "new Horde_Group_Kolab()" in  
> a situation where the class file has not been loaded before will  
> trigger autoloading. The autoloader will then convert this to  
> Horde/Group/Kolab.php and load the file into the parser.

Seems like this somehow doesn't work with "Horde_Core_Group_Kolab"...  
after renaming the class definition to the new name and configuring  
the kolab group driver, things break with a "class not found" error  
until I insert the "Include_once()" :(

I've provided my patches in ticket #11737, that'll make it easier for  
you all to test.

> It might be more helpful to log a bug though and describe what you  
> want to achieve. Horde_Group_Kolab is probably still buggy and needs  
> some love.

I gave it some hugs, which made it smile broadly ;) (#11737)

> "kolab_webmail" was intended to be an easy wrapper for installing  
> Horde preconfigured for Kolab. It is not completed though and there  
> is no release available (yet). So the only "official" way is  
> configuring Horde for Kolab yourself via the Admin frontend. If  
> kolab_webmail works for you this means that we should try to finish  
> the few missing bits and pieces though. I would also suggest to log  
> a bug with any improvements or suggestions you might have for  
> kolab_webmail.

I got things on the way today (ticket #113738), I made some learning  
progress yesterday - the first thing I learned was that 50% of my  
fixes were made available already in PEAR in the time window from me  
fixing them and finishing my report :D

> Concerning Horde/Kolab in general: Horde 5.0 delivers at least a  
> fully functional Kolab integration again and that is a big step  
> forward. But we also still lack the resources to convert this into a  
> completely polished thing. So any help from the community (patches,  
> testing etc.) is greatly appreciated.

H5 is the first version I have at least a chance to help out -  
feedback and patches are on their way.

That you all for the good work!

With regards,

Jens
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