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[Stephen Paul Weber]

On 5/1/07, Jonathan Daugherty <cygnus at janrain.com> wrote:
>
> # 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.).
>

There's no reason to use JanRain's libraries as 'dependancies' though... I
never have.  I just bundle them with whatever I'm distributing and my users
don't care.  Those who make us install them separately I take issue with,
but there's no compelling reason to do that, imho.





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