[Owncloud] Dependencies for Apps

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 27.01.2012, at 12:37, Klaas Freitag wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> when I updated my existing oC to oC 3 some time ago, I had the problem that dependencies for the gallery apps (gd and exif AFAIR) were not installed and as a result the gallery didn't work.
> 
> We do have a dependency tracking on initial install, but how do we handle deps for apps, especially if they come from the app-store?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Klaas

Very good question.
I don´t think we have a good answer here yet.

I general it´s a bad idea to rely on non default php modules. Apps should always provide a fall back if possible. Or just show a human readable warning if a required third party module or command line tool is not there.

Cheers
Frank