Thijs, > I got the request from a user of the SquirrelMail Debian package to > include the compatibility plugin in the standard distribution. I'm not > sure that's a good idea; see my rationale below; basically I thought > that the strength of the compatibility plugin is that it *isn't* > included in SquirrelMail. > > Can you tell me what your opinion about this is?
Eons ago, Erin and I had a discussion where we decided that Compatibility *should* be included as a plugin in the standard distro. That was before it required a patch, but I think I am still going to run with it in the near future. You raised the concern that when you get the NEWEST distro, there is absolutely NO NEED to have the plugin, since everything is up to date (although there might be things backported from the DEVEL stream that are not even in the newest STABLE). However, the idea was that we would keep the compatibility "library" in CVS, available for download as needed, similar to how Tomas is packaging the locales in CVS, separate from the core product. My only concern for that scenario is internal -- that the team won't necessarily keep the library up to date, but that's somewhat aside from the point.... If you'd like to talk it over again on the SM DEVEL list, we can do that. - Paul > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug#356983: squirrelmail: please include the compatibility > plugin > Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:04:30 +0100 > > severity 356983 wishlist > thanks > > Hello Anand, > > On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 21:25 +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > > Please include the compatibility plugin > > <http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_download.php?id=152&rev=1225> > > > > it makes some modifications to > > /usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/strings.php to include its library and > > it would be helpful it was already available. > > Thanks for your message. I agree that the plugin is quite universally > needed. Just for the record: the compatibility plugin has no > functionality of itself but provdies a standard API for plugin authors > who need certain functionalities that may not be available in older > versions of SquirrelMail. > > I'm just not sure yet wether including it actually helps. One of the > strengths of the plugin is that it 'backports' functionality for plugins > so that you can write one plugin that works on multiple SquirrelMail > branches. I've thought about including the plugin into > squirrelmail-proper (upstream), but then arrived at the conclusion that > this would defeat the purpose. > > I'll talk this over with Paul and let you know what he thinks. > > > bye, > Thijs > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBEF8/eJdKMxZV9WM8RApsjAJ4gaQhmF+p+lUowZAruzDooNwrl4gCdE/3M > YQMJPVpV0j/H92cTt4ePHeY= > =Ab3K > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >
