On Mar 4, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Michael Baierl wrote: > Thomas Bruederli wrote: >> Please let me know what you think of it and what's not working >> correctly. Thanks! > > Hi Thomas, > > the install script of stable complains about missing sockets: > Sockets: NOT OK > but everything works perfectly fine - can you please tell me why > sockets > are required?
I believe it is for IMAP over an encrypted connection ( IMAPS ) so if you don't use IMAPS, technically it isn't required. Since a large majority of end users will need IMAPS support, it is better to require Sockets support than to continually answer the question "Why won't IMAPS work ?" A "manual" install ( documented at http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/ Howto_Install ) would allow those that don't have sockets support and don't want to use IMAPS to use RoundCube. I use Fedora, and the PHP package for that distro includes Sockets support. I am not sure if the PHP package for other distros is configured similarly. I think Sockets support is not on by default if you compile PHP yourself, however if someone is capable of compiling PHP, they can easily add --enable-sockets when they invoke "configure." If someone is compiling PHP and _doesn't_ know how to do that, it might be best for the entire universe if I traveled to their locale and slapped them. Well, maybe not, that's a lot of bad karma for me ;) I think it was a good decision to require Sockets support, and modify the documentation accordingly. Charles Dostale System Admin - Silver Oaks Communications http://www.silveroaks.com/ 824 17th Street, Moline IL 61265 _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
