I'm aware of Moodle's bundling, and thought I had removed all that were in Fedora.  I'll start work on this shortly.

Hi Jon: 

You may want to look at bug 544722, I am on the hook to package a number of bundled libs from one of my packages, and have a number in progress. Just don't want us duplicating effort unnecessarily. 

The list of libs I am packaging is in the above. 

Thanks, 

David Nalley

moodle is moving to system php-pear-CAS shortly.

Jon, 

I've just taken the Fedora Engineering ticket for unbundling php libraries[1]. For starters, I've made a brief audit of the libraries currently bundled in moodle. Please let me know if there's something I can do to assist in resolving this matter. Feel free to copy me on any resulting package reviews and I'll take a look at them.


There already seems to be a suitably packaged version of these available:

* markdown.php - php-markdown
* pear/Auth/RADIUS - php-pear-Auth-RADIUS
* pear/Console/Getopt - php-pear
* pear/Crypt/CHAP - php-pear-Crypt-CHAP
* pear/HTML/Common - php-pear-HTML-Common
* pear/HTML/QuickForm - php-pear-HTML-QuickForm
* pear/OLE - php-pear-OLE


These seem to be pure bundling; no changes from upstream, or inconsequential changes. Should be simple to package separately and remove from moodle.

* pear/HTML/AJAX - http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_AJAX/
* pear/HTML/QuickForm/Renderer/Tableless.php - http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm_Renderer_Tableless
* pear/HTML/QuickForm/DHTMLRulesTableless.php - http://pear.php.net/package/HTML_QuickForm_DHTMLRulesTableless
* pear/HTTP/WebDAV - http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_WebDAV_Server
* bennu - http://bennu.sourceforge.net/
* editor/tinymce - http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/
* geoip - http://www.maxmind.com/app/php
* overlib - http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/
* pclzip (patched) - http://www.phpconcept.net/pclzip/ (patch appears to affect windows only)
* phpxml - http://keithdevens.com/software/phpxml
* recaptchalib.php - http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/docs/php.html
* snoopy (patched) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/ (patch appears to be cosmetic)
* speller - http://spellerpages.sourceforge.net/
* tcpdf (patched) - http://www.tcpdf.org/ (moodle ships a trimmed down version; api & code are the same)
* typo3 - http://typo3.org/ (only a couple of classes are bundled)
* validateurlsyntax.php - http://www.canowhoopass.com/guides/regex/
* yui - http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/


These three contain binary swf files that are not compiled from source; if they cannot be built from source, they need to be removed from the package:

* flashdetect
* mp3player
* swfobject


These appear to be unnecessary and can probably be removed:

* base32.php - seems to be unused
* soap/nusoap - not used with php5
* ufo.js - http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/index.html - but can probably be removed if we can't include flash objects


These appear to contain significant changes from their respective upstream. 

* pear/Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer - php-pear-Spreadsheet-Excel-Writer package available
* editor/htmlarea - upstream dead?
* evalmath - http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2695.html
* excel - mostly replaced by pear/Spreadsheet/Excel; only referenced in mod/hotspot/report/default.php
* fpdf - unused? replaced by tcpdf
* graphlib.php - http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/176.html
* html2text.php - http://www.chuggnutt.com/html2text.php
* htmlpurifier - package review at #542045
* lexer.php - seems to come from http://www.lastcraft.com/simple_test.php which is also bundled
* magpie - php-magpierss already available but didn't work
* phpmailer - php-PHPMailer package available
* simpletestlib - http://lastcraft.com/simple_test.php


[1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-engineering-services/ticket/38

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DONE markdown.php - php-markdown
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DONE pear/Crypt/CHAP - php-pear-Crypt-CHAP
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QuickForm can not be unbundled - it is heavily modified by moodle folks and system QuickForm won't work at all - moodle update will always hang if QuickForm is used requiring database restore and going back to last version with bundled QuickForm

see lib/pear/README_MOODLE.txt for full list of modifications to upstream modules before doing any unbundling.

Current moodle package is totally broken because of QuickForms unbundling.

Is this still the case with the modified unbundling I applied in July, for 2.4.5-2?

You must mean 2.5.1-2 ? No - that's not enough. you can't unbundle QuickForm - and also is very hard to go back to bundled version because of file conflict via symlinks...

From that README_MOODLE.txt on moodle 2.4.6:

Quickforms
==========
Full of our custom hacks, no way to upgrade to latest upstream.
Most probably we will stop using this library in the future.

MDL-20876 - replaced split() with explode() or preg_split() where appropriate

And note: that means you can't use moodle with later upstream Quickforms!

That file really need to be consulted before unbundling pear modules.

Since unbundling feodra moodle package can't be upgraded to new versions without breaking database permanently. I really hope everybody do have database backup from older versions...

"DONE pear/Crypt/CHAP - php-pear-Crypt-CHAP"

But:

[adamw@adam SPECS]$ sudo repoquery -l moodle-0:2.6-1.fc21.noarch | grep Crypt
/var/www/moodle/web/lib/pear/Crypt
/var/www/moodle/web/lib/pear/Crypt/CHAP.php

oh, is it a symlink? I didn't check.

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this at least wasn't intrinsically f19-related, so bump for safety. jon, what's current status?

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wondering why needinfo is still set.

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Using Provides: per new guidelines for most bundled libs, and moved to system version where possible.