...reviewed a *few* e-commerce packages... (I have 'free' on the brain :) On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm finding this thread very interesting because I've reviewed a free > e-commerce packages (some out of curiosity, some I've been paid to > review) and whilst the code is almost always procedural, some are > definitely more maintainable than others (so I suspect some of the > difficulty expressed in this thread also comes from an inability to > understand halfway complex code). As Mary Jo says, procedural != bad > by definition but shopping carts tend to be fairly complex due to the > various demands placed on them and they may well be the most complex > part of a site, which may mean they're the most complex code a given > developer has ever encountered. It's the same reason that many people > find application frameworks extremely complex and hard to understand. > Perfectly understandable and not actually a criticism of the framework > code itself. > > I do find it a little ironic that there's an objection to paying even > a few hundred dollars for something of value - and that folks keep > asking for OSS (when they really mean free), yet OSS struggles in the > CF community because developers won't donate their time for free - > they want to be paid. So, hey, you want to be paid but you're not > willing to pay for other developers' work? When you compare CF > offerings to PHP offerings, remember that you're comparing against a > culture of FOSS: LAMP is all free and open source and its developers > tend to be much more amenable to giving work back to the community for > free and contributing to other people's projects. Things are > definitely improving in the CF world but we've got a long way to go > before our collective mindset will lend itself to the rich eco-system > of FOSS we envy in other communities...
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