On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Thomas Bruederli <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 19:01, till <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Thomas Bruederli <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 03.12.2011, at 20:51, till wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:32 PM, A.L.E.C <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > W dniu 02.12.2011 18:05, till wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Never saw srcuri with PEAR packages:
> >> > > http://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.developers.package2.pecl.php
> >> > >
> >> > > It looks like it's pecl related. What are you trying to achieve with
> >> > > it?
> >> >
> >> > As stated in my first post in this thread, for AGPL plugins we need to
> >> > provide a link to source code.
> >> >
> >> > Reminds me to vote against the AGPL move.
> >>
> >> The AGPL suggestion for Roundcube core has actually nothing to do with
> the
> >> requirement of making the source code of plugins available which are
> >> published under AGPL-
> >> >
> >> > So, we need some URL field in package.xml.
> >> >
> >> > Maybe I don't get it – but a pear package does not compile code. It's
> >> > zipped up code in tar archive, compressed with gzip. The source is
> >> > available. Can you explain why this link is necessary or who claims
> that
> >> > it's necessary?
> >>
> >> If you install a plugin which in licensed under AGPL you have to provide
> >> the source to the users of that system. That's required by the AGPL
> itself.
> >>
> >> We (Roundcube) want to take the burden of collecting the links to all
> the
> >> AGPL sources away from the sysadmins which install Roundcube with AGPL
> >> plugins but collect them all in a single place. That's why we want the
> URL
> >> to the source of an AGPL plugin to be stated in the package itself. Of
> >> course we could also add some script which collects all the files
> directly
> >> from the Roundcube installation directory but this brings in some
> security
> >> topics which I'd like to avoid.
> >
> >
> > Ok, so just to be clear – you want something like a link to e.g. our
> > RoundCube svn repo, or a github repo, or sf, etc. where the source of the
> > package is located?
>
> Exactly.
> >
> > If so, I think there are two option:
> >
> > 1) Create a README and/or LICENSE file which contains the information and
> > install them with the 'doc' role.
> > 2) Add the link to the package's <description>
>
> That's the obvious approach but it isn't necessarily machine readable.
> Roundcube (trunk) lists all activated plugins in an "about" page and
> we want to show a download link to every AGPL plugin listed there. So
> what we're looking for is a tag in the xml schema where one can store
> that url and the <srcuri> seems to be exactly what we need. But what's
> that <srcuri> actually meant for and why is the package validator
> complaining if one uses it?
>
> And after all, I actually give a shit about the pear package validator
> because we're not using pear to maintain and distribute our plugins
> anyway.
>

We could decide on a file called SOURCE which contains the link to make it
more machine-readable.

I think <srcuri> is for pecl packages. pecl packages are c-extensions.

http://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.developers.package2.pecl.php

Both pecl and pear packages use a package.xml (2.0 currently) to be
installed. But they don't always share the same "elements".

Till

>
> ~Thomas
>
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