[Owncloud] Dependencies for Apps

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Hey,

for this you could use composer: http://packagist.org/about-composer
A great tool for me ...

regards,
Simon

Quoting Robin Appelman <icewind at owncloud.com>:

> On Friday 27 January 2012 13:16:47 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
>> 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
>
> There is a dependency overview under Settings->Admin but I'm not sure how
> complete it is, my idea for to future is to give all apps an
> appinfo/depend.php (or something simular) where they check and return the
> status of their dependencies.
>
> Also, exif is no longer a hard dependency but optional.
>
>  - Robin Appelman
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