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[Jonathan Daugherty]

# The Drupal Community won't use the JanRain libraries, as Drupal is
# anti-PEAR (the PHP extension library).

Just to be completely clear, the core Drupal devs take issue with
including the JanRain library code in Drupal or listing it as an
installation dependency.  The reasons for this are various, including
the fact that the library coding style is in complete disagreement
with that of Drupal itself.  (That the library coding style follows
some of the PEAR development guidelines is little more than a
historical artifact.)  Other PHP projects take issue with including it
for the same reasons; it's common for projects to shun dependencies
(PEAR or otherwise) and, as a result, reinvent one or more wheels
(templating, database abstraction, etc.).

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  Jonathan Daugherty
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