John, you kind of half hitting the nail on the head. At no point did I compare CakePHP itself to Wordpress, Drupal, etc - and CakePHP *should* be aimed at developers, but you said it yourself - if people know this cool application was built on CakePHP then more people will look at it, and maybe it will convert some of them to switch to.
But like it or not, there are people out there who we call end users who are looking for a drop-in solution, why don't we give them one? I'm not suggesting it takes away from CakePHP, infact I think it would add great value. Tane On 3/28/07, John David Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 28, 2007, at 12:49 PM, digital spaghetti wrote: > > > > > Fair enough on the Basecamp point, but I was looking at an overall > > general app that end-users can use, and Basecamp is quite specific to > > people who need Groupware. > > > > However I have to disagree on your other points. Look at Drupal or > > Wordpress for example, they are aimed at the end user - but as a > > consiquence of this, you have many hundreds of developers adding new > > code and features to them every day. Why can't this be the same for > > CakePHP. > > This is my own personal take, but I don't think CakePHP is in the > same category as Wordpress, Drupal, etc. There is a significant > difference between a CMS and an Application Framework. CakePHP isn't > a content mangement system, though it's pretty easy to create one > using it. > > We're not aiming for end users, we're aiming for developers. > > > And I think if we are to persuade people to develop for CakePHP there > > should be something there other than a few basic tutorials to show > > them what its capible off. > > I agree, but if people come to CakePHP expecting a plug and play > website, I don't really think that's what we're after. > > > If you bake it, they will come! > > ...to *your* website. Sure, if word gets out that some hot app was > built with CakePHP it'll make us more popular and accepted, but > mostly in development circles. I think CakePHP should shine for you > more than it does for us. If it truly does that, people will come > wanting the goodness anyway. > > </opinion type="personal"> > > -- John > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
