October was a very busy month in Horde development, even though a lot of things happened under the hood and cannot be accessed right now.
- A decision was made that Horde RPC will default to json-rpc and deprecate xmlrpc in upcoming releases, maybe already dropping xmlrpc in Horde 6. PHP8 will remove xmlrpc from the core distribution and move it into PECL, giving it much less of an installation base.
- B1 Systems GmbH released a typescript client for the Horde Ajax Framework https://github.com/b1-systems/horde-ajax-client
- Horde Injector: I continued my work from September. The Maintaina version of Injector now supports PSR-4, PSR-11, PSR-12 specifications. Backward compatibility is good. The unit tests have been converted to namespaced versions – see https://github.com/maintaina-com/Injector/tree/refactor-psr4
- Horde Components: The Components tool has been converted for PSR-4 autoloading in a composer setup. Also, some minor improvements on the composer file generator have been added
- I worked on upgrading Diana Hille’s DNS library for the horde framework, giving it the same PSR-4 makeover, converted it from wrapping AWS cli to wrapping AWS Route53 SDK. I think we can opensource the component soon.
- I created a little testbed application for the improved controller/routes handling in recent horde/core. horde/frogsie is the first Horde application stub to feature a RESTish interface. Frogsie writes iptables rules to implement a TCP/UDP Front Proxy in plain linux.
It doesn’t sport web UI or CLI though as it’s both a case study and a stop-gap utility. However, it’s a good example to learn from. - Horde Installer Plugin v1.1.0 supports both composer 1.x and composer 2.0 – This is mostly based on work by Kieran Brahney of SupportPal. I also began working on converting horde-deployment to remove the last bits of PEAR and make it compatible with composer 2.0. It’s not released yet.
- I am looking at the old vilma application at the moment. This will most likely not materialize before november. Vilma is a simple mailbox manager along the lines of postfixadmin. My primary interest is using it together with hordectl for a turnkey default setup. Vilma will get the PSR-4 treatment and likely I will want to change some of the architecture. Focus is on a minimum viable product that nicely integrates with my groupware bundle and fulfills very limited needs. I appreciate the work of Christian Bolz on PostfixAdmin and I do not intend to build a full scale replacement.
What’s next?
- More library conversions to PSR-4, PHP7 features.
- Most likely I will upgrade unit tests to a more recent PHPunit
- Release Cleanup / Upstreaming efforts for existing non-released code.
- Better theme support for horde-installer-plugin
Results first, more talk later.