Re: Horde components, deprecating old pear compontent

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Vasil Rangelov <boen.robot@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it's about time something like PHP's "museum" is created at > PEAR, so that the "live" package list can be less cluttered with dead > ones. > > What do you think? > > I'm a fan of this, but the community is a bit split. See http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=17203 and http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A--PEAR-QA--A-'graveyard'-for-packages---unloved-packages-p29589353.html The biggest hurdle is the PEAR installer has no support for a package migrating channels - if the code vanishes from the PEAR channel; it breaks people's systems. I've been meaning to take a look at how hard it could be; but have never had the time really. We have deleted some content from SVN or from PEAR, but only when it's had ridiculously low downloads over 6 years or so and isn't installable at all. For the original email; I'd love to superceed any of the below which have drop in replacements in horde: - File_PDF <http://pear.php.net/package/File_PDF> (lead) Bugs<http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?package_name%5B%5D=File_PDF&cmd=display> - Log <http://pear.php.net/package/Log> (lead) Bugs<http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?package_name%5B%5D=Log&cmd=display> - Mail <http://pear.php.net/package/Mail> (lead) Bugs<http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?package_name%5B%5D=Mail&cmd=display> - Net_SMS <http://pear.php.net/package/Net_SMS> (lead) Bugs<http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?package_name%5B%5D=Net_SMS&cmd=display> - Net_SMTP <http://pear.php.net/package/Net_SMTP> (lead) Bugs<http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?package_name%5B%5D=Net_SMTP&cmd=display> - Net_Socket <http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Socket> (lead) Bugs<http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?package_name%5B%5D=Net_Socket&cmd=display> - SOAP <http://pear.php.net/package/SOAP> (lead, inactive) Bugs<http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?package_name%5B%5D=SOAP&cmd=display> - Text_Diff <http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Diff> (lead) Bugs<http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?package_name%5B%5D=Text_Diff&cmd=display> - VFS <http://pear.php.net/package/VFS> (lead) Bugs<http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?package_name%5B%5D=VFS&cmd=display> - XML_SVG <http://pear.php.net/package/XML_SVG> (lead, inactive) Bugs<http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?package_name%5B%5D=XML_SVG&cmd=display> .. plus blog a few migration tutorials if needed (Horde_Log for instance is quite different); and generally advertise the new APIs to the world. This puts us in the right direction for having a "PHP5 friendly" set of replacements, stops some of the perception that PEAR code is "crufty and old"; but still supports BC. Even better; it means that we'll see more PEAR / PEAR2 packages which use channels :)