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

Ok great. So we are now discussing a possible merge. Again I want to say that I still have the luxery of being able to make such a decision on purely technical basis and not based on the fact that I have code that relies on LiveUser. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Bibbs [mailto:tony@tonybibbs.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:53 PM > To: Lukas Smith > Cc: 'LIMBOURG Arnaud'; PEAR Development > Subject: RE: [PEAR-DEV] New Package Proposal: Enterprise A&A > > Sorry, I don't dispute they aim to solve the same problem (A&A). I don't > even dispute the fact there are structural difference...after all both > were developed without the knowledge of the other. I've only harped on > the two differentiators that if you compare my original post in this > thread to what is shown in the PEAR descriptor for LiveUSer which are a) > web-service based and b) designed from scratch to eventually support the > Liberty project. After hearing more about LiveUser, it seems that b) is > possible though it was never articulated as a goal. Also a) is possible > with LiveUser. Is that accurate? Yes. One thing that has not been implemented in LiveUser is a mapping between auth user id's and permission user id's. This is not all that difficult todo but is imperative to ensure that both backends can be used without modification (for example: Useraccount is maintained by Liberty Alliance and Permission data is managed locally). When I was saying that both projects could implement each other as a container/provider I was just saying that both packages sound flexible enough to support this. Theoretically :-) Markus was very clean in his efforts until I and others started to add stuff. That is why is nice documentation got out of wack a bit :-/ When I joined LiveUser I was just finished (after 1-2 months of planning with an employee in my company) what sort of features we want. The document is in german however :-/ I have written a list of features that the now sort of defunt DB_Complex permission container had which can be found here: http://projects.21st-hq.de/liveuser/about.htm Arnaud might have some new docs to add to this and he just told me on irc that your source looks clean ... Anyways I will finishing eating and then I will check out your source :-) Regards, Lukas