[Kolab-devel] RFC: Another package split, this time PHP

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Oden Eriksson <oeriksson at mandriva.com> writes:

> tisdagen den 7 augusti 2007 skrev Gunnar Wrobel:
>> Hi!
>>
>> While discussing the current structure of kolab-webadmin with Marcus
>> Hüwe he also suggested that it might be good to have the libraries
>> within this package as a normal PEAR package. After thinking about
>> that I think this would be a very good solution.
>>
>> So I'd like to suggest another splitting of packages:
>>
>>  1) Moving PHP library parts from kolab-webadmin into a new php-kolab
>>     package
>>
>>  2) Moving PHP library parts from kolab-resource-handlers into a new
>>     php-kolab package
>>
>> This would improve several things:
>>
>>  1) Allow sane packaging for the native Kolab ports
>>
>>  2) Allow providing clean source archives for the packages mentioned
>>     above.
>>
>>  3) Remove code duplication within the current PHP script (a cleanup
>>     op that has been pending for a while).
>>
>> Having a Kolab-specific PHP library might also facilitate code
>> exchange with the Kolab-specific module within Horde.
>>
>> Any objections to that plan? I'd like to effect this change rather
>> soon since I'll have to work on kolab-resource-handlers anyhow. So cry
>> out loud quick :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gunnar
>
> Sounds great! Could you please also do it for the stable version? Like a new 
> 2.1.1 release?

Hm, probably not :) The stable branch should only receive bug fixing
and restructuring the PHP packages is not really handling a bug. While
I'll try not to break anything there is always a risk involved and
that would not really combine that well with "stable".

Cheers,

Gunnar

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