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Month: July 2021

  • Horde’s HTTP component goes PSR

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    This weekend, I gave the horde/http component a some major redesign. See how things escalated. Oh my. My minimum goals were namespacing, PSR-4 (Revised Autoloading Standard) and some minor, schematic adjustments. The final result is quite different. I ended up implementing PSR-7 (HTTP Message Interface), PSR-17 (HTTP Factories) and PSR-18 (HTTP Client). The code largely…

  • Maintaina Horde: Fourth Of July Additions

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    I packaged some more exotic horde apps and libraries for use with the composer installer and the FRAMEWORK_6_0 codebase. This was mostly formal conversion work, no actual testing was done. Some of these items might not even be very useful to most administrators. Nevertheless, I want to close the gap between what is available in…

  • Composer Installer gets Horde Themes

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    A while back I added theme package support to the composer installer for horde (horde-installer-plugin). There are some Horde themes or theme customisations available out there, but they come as zip files you have to manually deploy to the right directories, often spanning multiple apps. The installer recognizes themes and generates appropriate symlinks in the…

  • No more master branch in maintaina horde

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    I am changing the default branch in all maintaina-com/ horde repos to be the FRAMEWORK_6_0 branch. In a separate next step, the master branch on these repos will be removed. This is not due to any semantic discussion of technical terms like “master”. I am simply acknowledging reality. At the moment I cannot hope to…