Re: Merging PHPLIB into PEAR

Hi Sebastian, This is very exciting news. I'm out travelling right now, but I'll definitely help with this process when I get home (next week). - Stig On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Hello there, > > Kristian Köhntopp and Ulf Wendel approached me today and told me that > they have decided to merge the existing classes and modules of > PHPLIB 7 and those that are currently beeing worked on (for PHPLIB > 8, which will now never be released) into PEAR and asked me to > coordinate efforts in order to do so. > > The merging with PHPLIB brings thought-through, well-tested classes > for Authorisation, User and Permission Management, classes for the > abstraction of forms (with Layout Management Engine) and a lot of > other stuff (table proxies, ...) into PEAR. > > I hope everyone is happy with this step, at least I am. :-) Why? > Until now there were two standard repositories one could use and now > there is the opportunity to join the strengths of both. > > One thing is for sure: The process of integrating PHPLIB's concept of > Auth/User/Perm into PEAR will not be finished over-night. > PHPLIB's Sess(ion) class is currently beeing ported to PHP 4 to act > as a wrapper for the native session-management functions of PHP 4. > What needs to be done now is port PHPLIB's classes for Auth/User/Perm > to PEAR::DB, because they are using PHPLIB's own database abstraction > system, which has come of age. > > Ulf Wendel is currently working on the new OOHForms and a Layout > Management System. I am sure he can elaborate on this topic on this > list. Ulf? > > A first, but rather unimportant step was my last commit which moved > the IT[X] template classes from phpdoc/redist to HTML/ and removed > the redist/ directory. > > Yours, > Sebastian > > -- > sebastian bergmann e-mail : sb@sebastian-bergmann.de > homepage : > http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de > make a gift : > http://wishlist.sebastian-bergmann.de > measure the usability of your web application -> > http://phpOpenTracker.de > > > -- > PHP Extension and Add-on Repository (PEAR) mailing list. > Documentation can be found at http://pear.php.net/doc/pear.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-pear-unsubscribe@lists.php.net from the > mail address you subscribed with. >