Why two pieform directories?

[Robert Lyon]

Currently the basic pieform elements information lives in:

htdocs/lib/pieforms/pieform/

but there are also pieform elements that live in
htdocs/lib/forms/

Why do we need to have them in two places?

I can imagine that there might have been a reason to keep the pieform plugin separate from custom pieform elements but seeing as mahara pieform is really a fork of the original this seperation is not needed within mahara.

[Robert Lyon (robertl-9)]

This would be good to sort out for 15.10

[Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)]

Yeah, it's as you say. Way back when, the Mahara team destribute Pieforms as a separate library from Mahara. http://pieforms.sourceforge.net/doc/html/

So, we separated out the "custom" parts of Pieform as used in Mahara, from the standard parts. But I think after Nigel left Catalyst, we stopped trying to support Pieforms as a standalone forms library, so you're probably right, we're probably better off merging the "custom" and "standard" stuff now.