On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Niphlod <niph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, March 4, 2013 3:10:33 PM UTC+1, Michele Comitini wrote:
>>
>> First of al I like a library that claims web2py compatibility that's a
>> very good sign!
>
>
> ? web2py is "out" (part of the reason why I asked if someone was
> interested). There's webpy, flask and django.
>
>>
>> Does social-auth support a common API (aka janrain) to access social
>> info or it is just the auth part?
>
>
> seems also extra data
>
>>
>> For the auth part  we already cover already much of it, the dying
>> OAuth1.0a  and the now stable OAuth2.0,we have also backward
>> compatibility with the broken facebook implementation.   Maintenance
>> is a relative issue, since these protocols should be rather stable.
>
>
> That was more or less the big point: what if someone like you leaves the
> module the way it is and some changes are introduced in the APIs ? Did
> anyone tested the contrib module against something that was not facebook,
> google or linkedin ? There are 44 backends already tested with that module.
>
> We have 6 contrib modules for managing various oauth implementations and
> most of it remains probably untested (there are no unittest available for
> all of them)...
>
> <rant mode="good way ^_^">
> At the end of the day..... why should web2py reinvent the wheel every time
> (this is only an example) instead of relying on battle-tested libraries ?
> Less code to include in the distribution, less code to maintain, more users
> to test the features (testers for web2py modules and contribs are REAAAAALLY
> lacking), less probability that if the maintainer has something else to do
> the code would be updated anyway.
> </rant>

Agreed.

E.g.: I tested the LinkedIn many many months ago; reported a bug; and
didn't get it fixed >.<

If we can just tie in libraries which have the functionality we want;
we'll be much better off :)

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