Re: [PEAR-QA] Crypt_RSA

http://pear.php.net/package/Crypt_RSA/ is now marked as superceded.

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Daniel O'Connor <[email protected]>wrote:

> WOO!
> PEAR QA folk, votes for marking as superceeded and onto a new channel?
>
> The API is different here, so it's a good thing PEAR won't auto-swap you
> over.
>
> If I don't hear anything dissenting by Friday, I'll mark it as superceeded.
>
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> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Jim Wigginton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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 :)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Jim Wigginton <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> 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.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Sorry for not replying to the last email - I got it but it, I guess,
>> >> got lost in a deluge of other email.
>> >>
>> >> 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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