> > My experience with OpenACS was that it is much more difficult to develop > > modules for if it's simply going to be an application for inhouse use > > (not > > What? Why would developing an in-house only app be any harder than > developing one suitable for redistribution to others? In reality, the > opposite is true. If you're the only user than you can take shortcuts > and in general things are simpler and easier.
You are right and that's what I was trying to say. > There is a sizeable learning curve to taking full advantage of the > OpenACS features. But, no one's forcing you to take advantage of > them. You can safely ignore the vast majority of the complexity when > you start out, if you so wish. Lots of the functionality you just get > for free with basically no effort on your part - user registration, > session management, etc. All users are added when their network account is setup. Session management is already complete (to the degree I need it) in about 90 lines of code (checks for a cookie, set's a cookie on login, etc...). I have no real need for session management other than knowing who is logged in (realitively simple). > I can't imagine it ever being FASTER to build any sizeable application > from scratch with just the plain AOLserver APIs than with OpenACS. > Perhaps a different toolkit would fit your desires better (not that > I'd know why), or you'd not want to use OpenACS for some other reason, > but faster development time with no additional toolkit at all, than > with the OpenACS toolkit? I don't think so. That would be a truly > damning indictment of OpenACS if true, but fortunately, it's not even > remotely the case. Maybe I need to reconsider OpenACS for another product I am working on in my spare time. Development really has not begun on it, I have been in the spec part of development and just recently trying to decide what is the best product for it. It's a community site which would require alot of what you were speaking about. I am trying to maximize effeciency though, that's my only concern. Jeremy -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list: http://www.aolserver.com/listserv.html List information and options: http://listserv.aol.com/
