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 :) -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.