Bug 147349

Summary: phplib not intented to be used in production (should be drooped)
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez>
Component: OtherAssignee: Petr Ostadal <postadal>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: kukuk, suse-beta
Version: Beta 3   
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Description Cristian Rodríguez 2006-02-01 18:51:58 UTC 
Hi:

I wonder why phplib is shipped with SUSE.

Problems:

1. Project is unmantained

2.latest release was more than 3 years ago.


Poc : (test with 10.1 latest please)

cd /path/to/phplib

for phplib in *.inc;do 

php -d display_errors=1 -d html_errors=0 -d error_prepend_string=" " -d error_reporting=2047 -l  $phplib

done



you will even find  PARSER errors.


solution:

All this functionality (and a lot more), is provided nowdays, on PEAR.


BTW..Im sure it will not even work correctly on PHP 5.1 even in the case most files are syntactically correct.
Comment 1 Petr Ostadal 2006-02-01 22:21:02 UTC 
Andreas, isn't too late for dropping proposed phplib package?

No package is required this package in our distribution. (And Cristian knows what he talking about, because he works with php every day).
Comment 2 Cristian Rodríguez 2006-02-01 23:08:42 UTC 
well. If a not mantained. not under active development package,generating fatal errors with just doing syntax checks on it ,


IF CANNOT  be dropped now.:

1. you will have a non working or half working package.(some code is even for PHP3 (!) )

2.user will need to change php.ini configuration (and maybe will still not work )

3. you have to package a warning inside, telling the user about it.


if CAN be dropped:

1. template class is provided with the evolution of the phplib template class called HTML_Template_IT available from PEAR ( and use mostly the same code syntax)

2. Database abstraction ins provided by PEAR DB.

3. Session stuff if provided by HTTP_Session PEAR package.(which BTW ,looks like the evolution of phplib session class) 

4.
Auth : is provided by a whole bunch of PEAR packages..Im lazy and the list is too long to mention :-)
Comment 3 Andreas Jaeger 2006-02-02 08:18:48 UTC 
I dropped it now.