Re: [phplib] [RFC] Future of phplib From: giancarlo pinerolo (ping <email protected>)
Date: 07/21/01

nathan r. hruby wrote:
> In an attempt to let PHPLib down slowly Kris and Ulf tried to get
> PHPLib ported into PEAR. As we all know (or at least should know)
> PHPLib won't be ported to PEAR in any form that will be usable with
> the current body of code that exists for it. Some of the HTML bits
> might make it in if someone makes them PEAR-ified. Session, Auth,
> Perm, DB_Sql, Template and such will die.

I completely missed that discussion. Where did it happen?
BTW I missed to stay up-to-date with the evolution of PEAR too, of which
I know little.
I'd like to read what happened, and why and how, it sounds as an
important point in the course of PHPLIB

 
> > Max has done some work on PHPLib-ifying PHP4 native sessions and

The port to PHP4 is very very interesting, and I can imagine it would be
interesting for a lot of people, was it only for the fact that a custom
savehandler is implemented...
The code is a lot lighter, and nicer and more easy to maintain too. And
faster.
And we got rid of those php statements made persistent.

I think the values of phplib now moved from the generic capability of
handling a session to the availability of more sofisticate features of
default_auth and permission schemes. These features are still unpaired.
Now phplib is more addressed to developers than to web designers, and as
I said, some self-configuring methods are much needed for packaages to
integrate smoothly with each-other.

XML, which means analyzable, recoverable persistent data, would be a
step forward too.

I am optimist, and can see a future for PHPLib

Of course I am interested.

And I happen to have quite a lot of time at times, and a bunch of code
extensions (which I myself can hardly track) that I'd be happy to give.

> I personally have a lot of time invested into PHPLib and would like
> to see it continue. Not just for phpSlash, but for my other projects
> and as an alternative to PEAR.

I really need the story about PHPLib-PEAR.

> So I propose we move PHPLib to SourceForge.

Nothing against that.

>
> Part of this proposal is a call for help.

I am available, but I am afraid have some quite oustanding limits

Giancarlo 

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