[Vtigercrm-developers] Very important question about JpGraph

[Marcin Antczak]

On 3/4/06, Fathi BOUDRA <fboudra at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Le Samedi 4 Mars 2006 20:41, Mike Fedyk a écrit:
> > >I'm on record as favoring external dependency (with version checking,
> of
> > >course) for everything vtigercrm currently keeps private
> snapshots/forks
> > >of. My reasons were primarily for distro-provided security upgrades,
> but
> > >now licensing issues seem like they would be made easier if we didn't
> > >distribute third-party software and keep it in our repository.
> > >
> >
> > This only offloads the licensing issue to the distributor, like the
> > vtiger windows exe and Linux bin distro so we don't gain anything
> > there. Also it leaves the vtiger users in hot water. I don't think
> > this is a good way at all to avoid licensing issues.
>
> from the beginning, there's architectural problem to keep our own copies
> of
> softwares inside vtigercrm. We must deal with all licenses problem.
>
> We must focus on vigercrm code only and integration with external
> dependencies. Yes, it's only dependencies and not vtigercrm core code.
> These 3rd party software must be packaged correctly by packagers, it's
> their
> job.
>
> vtigercrm really need code cleanup, and a modular view of vtigercrm
> "distribution".
>


I agree in 100%

at this moment I modularized:

- adodb
- libphp-log4php

and work on:

- squirrelmail
- phpsysinfo
- xtemplate
- tutos

and think about:

- phpBB
- fpdf
- phpmail


Marcin
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