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Comment on [#6559] Application should fail gracefully if prerequisites not installed
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> First of all, this is a pretty nice patch. Thank you for submitting it. > > > > However, I'm going to stand by my (and Jan and Michael's) stance that > this isn't a bug. There is a philosophical difference in that I don't > think it's problematic that a user can cause a misconfigured or > improperly installed application to emit a fatal error. It's perhaps > not ideal, but it's not horrible. Fatal errors from a properly > installed and configured app are different of course. > > > > My main reason for rejecting this, though, is that: > > > > a. DIMP and MIMP are the only Horde applications that require any > other Horde application in this way, and the next version will fold > them both in to IMP, eliminating this situation. > > > > b. PEAR already provides an extensive dependency mechanism, and it is > our goal to make Horde applications PEAR-installable in the future. > > > > Given these two things - this is only true for two applications, and > we'll be moving to an already-existing, more complete system in the > future - I don't think it makes sense to introduce a separate > dependency mechanism into Horde.
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