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From: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Launching PostgreSQL KB Project Mark 2
Date: 06 Dec 2005 15:30:20 -0500
Message-ID: <1133901029.16256.416.camel@camel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 15:21, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On the other hand, I wouldn't blame you if you thought that 
> > the latest KB effort was liable to founder and die and that 
> > you needed to have a back-up.  
> > It wouldn't be the first one.  But in that case I'd suggest 
> > looking at adapting something existing (like Bricolage, 
> > Framewerk, Drupal, etc.) rather than coding up from scratch.  
> > If you keep your requirements simple, at least one of these 
> > should suffice, and has the tremendous advantage of having 
> > external code maintainence, documentation, and help.
> 
> I did look at this. It was my evaluation that it would take me *more*
> work to adapt something like Drupal to my requirements, than to code
> from scratch. It's not as easy as one would like it to be to make these
> CMSes integrated into something existing. They tend to be designed to be
> the "master system" that can plug in your own custom modules in, not to
> be one of those custom modules.
> 

FWIW Gevik also looked at drupal. I actually think he did really good
trying to get it to work but in the end he also concluded it wasn't
quite right. 


Robert Treat
-- 
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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