[imp] New required dependency

[Michael J Rubinsky]

+1 to both points. 

-mike
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From: Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
Sent: Jan 15, 2015 3:53 AM
To: imp at lists.horde.org
Subject: Re: [imp] New required dependency

>
> Zitat von Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>
>> Citeren Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>>>
>>>> Citeren Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>>>
>>>>> Quoting azurIt <azurit at pobox.sk>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> IMP 6.2.4 introduces new required dependency:
>>>>>
>>>>> You mean 6.2.5.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Will upgrade channel://pear.horde.org/imp
>>>>>> Unknown remote channel: phpseclib.sourceforge.net
>>>>>> horde/imp requires package  
>>>>>> "channel://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/File_ASN1"
>>>>>> No valid packages found
>>>>>> upgrade-all failed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this ok? Why it suddenly needs this strange package from  
>>>>>> external source?
>>>>>
>>>>> To parse badly formatted S/MIME data.
>>>>
>>>> Might be worth a note in http://www.horde.org/apps/imp/docs/UPGRADING.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> We've never added notes to UPGRADING before when adding new  
>>> package dependencies.  And I don't see any reason to start now.
>>
>> Because these would not require registering additional PEAR  
>> channels? One can assume that 'pear.php.net' and 'pear.horde.org'  
>> are registered, because these are either required by PEAR or was  
>> registered during the initial Horde installation (per the  
>> instructions in http://www.horde.org/apps/horde/docs/INSTALL). Any  
>> additional packages from these channels required should be good to  
>> go. Howevere, the requirement for the 'phpseclib.sourceforge.net'  
>> channel is mentioned nowhere in the Horde documentation, so it  
>> would be helpful if this was mentioned somewhere.
>>
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> Agreed, and I would go even further. We never *required* packages  
> from other channels than Horde and PEAR before. This could be added  
> as an optional dependency, but not as a required one.
>
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