I have looked at phpgroupware, and think it has a very excellant set of ideas in it. Where/how it fits/relates to DotGNU as currently engaged, I am not precisely certain, but I would be happy to talk about this further. I understand that php may again become free software, and if so, this is a good thing.
David On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r) wrote: > Norbert Bollow wrote: > > > > > > I think this is a great idea. Re-inventing Savannah as a distributed > > > > development environment with the DotGNU webservices platform at > > > > its core would be a great way to showcase DotGNU. However this > > > > would require some significant changes to Loic's plans for the > > > > next-generation Savannah. > > > > > > > > Loic, what do you think about these ideas? > > > > > > > > > > I tend to like it. Were are commited to use phpGroupWare for > > > various reasons, mainly because it requires little efforts to get a > > > platform running and also because it's well architectured. Would that > > > conflict with using DotGNU ? > > > > It conflicts with the current lack of plans for supporting PHP in > > DotGNU. > > What does it mean to support PHP? We already provide an XML-RPC > interface which is being used by our new client app (see > http://www.phpgroupware.org). We have a SOAP interface, which is partly > broken but we are working to fix. > The way we have organized the code in an n-tier style, it allows for all > of the interfaces to essentially call up an apps functions from either > XML-RPC, SOAP or internally with PHP. > > However, now that you say you arent planning to support PHP, it helps > explain why phpGroupWare has been overlooked by you guys all this time. > Hopefully a few of you will take some time and look at what we have > done. We have a working web services solution all under the GPL/LGPL. We > have several apps, and we are perfectly willing to adjust here and there > to fit into the DotGNU plan. > > > One of the problems is the GPL-incompatibility of PHP4. > > Does phpGroupWare run with PHP3? > > Yes, we go to great lengths to continue supporting PHP3 because of the > license. > > Seek3r > _______________________________________________ > Developers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://subscribe.dotgnu.org/mailman/listinfo/developers > >
