<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathan Daugherty</b> <<a href="mailto:cygnus@janrain.com">cygnus@janrain.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
# The Drupal Community won't use the JanRain libraries, as Drupal is<br># anti-PEAR (the PHP extension library).<br><br>Just to be completely clear, the core Drupal devs take issue with<br>including the JanRain library code in Drupal or listing it as an
<br>installation dependency. The reasons for this are various, including<br>the fact that the library coding style is in complete disagreement<br>with that of Drupal itself. (That the library coding style follows<br>some of the PEAR development guidelines is little more than a
<br>historical artifact.) Other PHP projects take issue with including it<br>for the same reasons; it's common for projects to shun dependencies<br>(PEAR or otherwise) and, as a result, reinvent one or more wheels<br>
(templating, database abstraction, etc.).<br></blockquote><div><br>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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