RE: [PHP-PEAR] RFC on merge of PHPLib and Pear

Ok... fine... to steal a line from Ulf, then submit your own... :)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Hagenbuch [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 11:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PHP-PEAR] RFC on merge of PHPLib and Pear

Quoting Björn Schotte <[email protected]>:

> Yes, Auth depends on Session. But (I'm not very familiar with
> CPAN, but I think it is) is it true that on CPAN you find
> a lot of modules which depend on other modules, isn't it?

Let me try again.

User authentication/permissions/etc. is a big, complicated area. Phplib's
solutions for that area aren't generic solutions that let you tackle any
project; they're specific solutions that let you tackle some smaller/simpler
kinds of projects.

Therefore, I don't think they should become the "PEAR Auth", "PEAR User",
etc.
official solutions. I can live with them being inside a PHPLib/ directory,
and
being PHPLib_Auth, etc. But if they're going to be in PEAR, even in a
PHPLib/
directory, they should follow PEAR conventions, so they're going to change,
and
their current API will break...

-chuck

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