Re: [PEAR-QA] Crypt_RSA

phpseclib should now be installable via a PEAR channel:

http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Daniel O'Connor
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Awesome :)
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> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Jim Wigginton <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Daniel O'Connor
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Daniel O'Connor <
>> [email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
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>> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:41 AM, John McKinzey <[email protected]
>> >
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> My thoughts: PEAR should adopt the Crypt_RSA class at
>> >>> phpseclib.sourceforge.net as Crypt_RSA2.  If "[you] don't have time to
>> >>> [add new features] and [you] don't know RSA well enough" then your
>> >>> ability to fix all but the most superficial of bugs is suspect.
>> >>> Besides, the phpseclib Crypt_RSA package fulfills several open feature
>> >>> requests for the PEAR package that, by your admission, you'd be
>> >>> unwilling and unable to do.
>> >>
>> >> Ah, perhaps; but it's LGPL'd; and the patches / changes which appear to
>> >> have been applied to it have never been pushed back upstream afaict -
>> ie:
>> >> the maintainer hasn't bugged us with.. .bugs :)
>> >>
>> >> Seems odd, since he's a pear dev (http://pear.php.net/user/terrafrost)
>> >>
>> >> *nudge terrafrost, nudge*
>> >>
>> >> Anyway, there's nothing to stop both of them becoming devs on the
>> package
>> >> :)
>> >
>> > Let's try this email address.
>> >
>> > psst, Jim; Does your Crypt_RSA have any common heritage with the PEAR
>> > version?
>> >
>> > Feel like making http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/ installable via a
>> pear
>> > channel? (something like http://www.pirum-project.org/ makes it pretty
>> > simple these days)?
>> > If so, I'm more than happy to point users of PEAR's Crypt_RSA over to
>> > phpseclib.
>> >
>> >
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>> Sorry for not replying to the last email - I got it but it, I guess,
>> got lost in a deluge of other email.
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>> Anyway, my Crypt_RSA was developed from the ground up, completely
>> independent of the one in PEAR.
>>
>> I do plan on creating a PEAR channel for the 0.2.1 release of
>> phpseclib, which will hopefully happen later this month.  I'll send an
>> email here when that's done?
>>
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