Re: Proposed Package (again): Enterprise Authentication & Authorization

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:32:08 -0600 (CST) Tony Bibbs <tony@tonybibbs.com> wrote: > Man, has this come full circle. Ain´t democracy great? ;-) > Well, while the folks working on LiveUser had the best intentions on > working with me on this, time committments have prevented them from giving > this the attention it needs and have since encouraged me to repost this > here. The idea is after things slow down we will revisit merging again > and while I welcome this I don't plan on holding my breath. > > To prevent re-posting everything, here is the original proposal I > submitted: > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=pear-dev&m=104256945332548&w=2 > > Questions and comments are welcome again but I hope we have beat this to > death and a vote can take place soon... Well, so here´s my +1 for you in case I didn´t give that in the previous thread. A quick summary to all who have not followed the thread and don´t have the time to catch up: - Enterprise A&A and LiveUser both try to achieve the same goals - The packages have different API´s. Therefore it might make sense to have both packages in PEAR, so the user has a broader choice - not every developer likes the same API styles. - As far as I´ve seen, Enterprise A&A follows PEAR coding guidelines and the code seems well-documented. - While LiveUser started out using just an RDBMS to store its data, EA&A is using RPC calls from the beginning (SOAP I guess - this feature is planned for LiveUser as well, but not yet implemented). Unfortunately, I didn´t have enough time to dig into the differences between the packages any further (which is why we postponed the discussion of a possible merge), so this is all I can say ATM. Regards, Markus -- Markus Wolff <wolff@21st.de>