Re: Another Auth-class

En réponse à "Tomas V.V.Cox" <cox@idecnet.com>: > On Wednesday 31 October 2001 10:17, LIMBOURG Arnaud wrote: > > I did not mean to be rude or anything so you don't have to flame > > me... > > It seems that the PEAR_User wakes up many passions :-) I'm guilty for that. I started the idea, but it was not a good one. The conclusion is perhaps that a user point of view is not exactly compatible with a developer point of view (could be seen as obvious but I didn't realize that before, and this is an interesting experience). The starting point was that every php package has its own user management scheme, that makes developers lives more difficult because they have to develop their own user management system, and user (webmaster/developer) lives harder also because they have to mess around the code to destroy what the original developer spend time and energy to create… So the point was : as a lot (perhaps 70 or 80% ) of what is required to manage users, is staadard from an applciation to another, what about creating a common base for that allowing several php packages to share the same user management basis (extended on a case by case basis to fulfill 100% of the application needs). Reading all the (interesting) contributions, I'm no more convinced that this is a good idea for PEAR, perhaps this is more a job to devote to a classical Open Source package (by the way some user management packages does exist). Luc