RE: [PEAR-DEV] New Package Proposal: Enterprise A&A

Single sign-on in PEAR packages wacky? I'm not sure I understand what you meant by that. I think a package that aims at supporting single-signon makes sense in PEAR. I'm sure there is agreement there. --Tony On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Lukas Smith wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: LIMBOURG Arnaud [mailto:arnaud.limbourg@cegetel.fr] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:15 PM > > To: Tony Bibbs; Pierre-Alain Joye > > Cc: wolff@21st.de; pear-dev@lists.php.net > > Subject: RE: [PEAR-DEV] New Package Proposal: Enterprise A&A > > > > Catching on the thread (my mail client will most likely start a new > thread, > > thanks to microsoft, i use outlook ;( > > > > If I understood the thread correctly both packages aim in the same > general > > direction. The approach is a bit a bit different in that Enterprise > A&A is > > designed with web-service in mind whereas live user on provides a > general > > framework with a container approach. I believe (from current level of > > comprehension of both packages) that liveuser is more flexible in that > it > > does oblige the end-user to use what containers are provided with it > but > > instead provides the means to easily add almost anything he/she has in > > mind. > > > > Like markus wrote having a web service capability and/or single sign > on > > requires the work of writing the containers (which is quite a lot of > work > > I > > reckon ;). The idea is to keep the same API so the end-user code does > not > > have to change. Web-service containers would also be a great addition > to > > the > > package, providing a rather complete set of containers is a good thing > > imho. > > > > This said I think there could be a merging of efforts, dividing when > we > > could all work together is not the way to go (tm). I have to look at > the > > a&a > > code to see how it is designed, maybe my assumptions were wrong, in > which > > case i apologize ;) > > > > Keep up the discussion, the process might take a while :) > > even though competing packages in PEAR are allowed it would be sort of > wacky to have to single sign on packages in pear. However liveuser is > flexible enough that it could actually just access A&A through a > container. > > Regards, > Lukas > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------| Tony Bibbs | "I guess you have to remember that those who don't | tony@tonybibbs.com | hunt or fish often see those of us who do as | | harmlessly strange and sort of amusing. When you | | think about it, that might be a fair assessment." | | --Unknown | ------------------------------------------------------------------------|