Thank you. I don't think the dependency will ever go away. It would be like trying to remove Django as a dependency of Mezzanine. Cartridge heavily leverages many aspects of Mezzanine.
On Mar 4, 2:16 pm, "uno...@gmail.com" <uno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Stephen, > > Amazing work with Mezzanine and Cartridge. One question I had for you > - have you considered separating Cartridge from the dependency on > Mezzanine. I think Cartridge adoption will increase quite a lot if the > interdependency is removed. I realize though, that this means more > issues with managing both projects and added work to maintain both of > them. But just a thought. > > On Mar 3, 3:51 pm, Stephen McDonald <st...@jupo.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Djangonauts, > > > I'm happy to announce the release of Mezzanine 1.0. Mezzanine is simple yet > > powerful BSD licensed CMS for building Django powered sites. > > > Development of Mezzanine and its sister project Cartridge (ecommerce for > > Mezzanine) began over two years ago, born from frustrations with the only > > options available at the time which were django-page-cms and Satchmo, and > > from a decade's experience in building proprietary CMSes and ecommerce > > solutions, prior to working with Django. Since then it has grown from real > > world requirements at a fast paced web development agency in Australia, and > > has received contributions from many dozens of developers on GitHub and > > Bitbucket, with a wider community of hundreds on the mailing list. > > Mezzanine and Cartridge have been used to power a long list of production > > sites, from personal blogs and agency sites, to some of the highest traffic > > content sites and ecommerce stores for some of the largest brands in > > Australia. > > > Here's an overview of Mezzanine's features: > > > - Hierarchical navigation tree, with page nodes extendable by Mezzanine's > > content type system. Content types are simply subclases of Mezzanine's Page > > model - subclass away and your new type is available. > > - Inline front-end site editing that can be applied to any models: > > Mezzanine's, third party apps, or your own. > > - Blogging app (regular Django app). > > - Gallery app (a Mezzanine content type). > > - Mobile device handling. Build separate mobile versions of templates where > > required to run a mobile version of the site - no separate URLs or views > > required. > > - Form builder app (a Mezzanine content type). Admin users create their own > > forms, and view form submissions via the admin, or export them via CSV. > > - Mezzanine projects are standard Django projects - admin, urlpatterns, > > views, models. Third party Django apps plug straight in without special > > handling. > > - Built-in search engine. > > - South migrations. > > - Admin editable settings. > > - Full test suite, continuously integrated (with Travis CI) including > > automated pep8/pyflakes integration. The code base is painstakingly clean. > > - Fully documented, available on the Mezzanine project site as well as on > > Read The Docs. > > - Translated into around a dozen languages, managed via Transifex. > > - Grappelli/Filebrowser based admin. Third party Django admin classes plug > > straight in. > > - Full featured ecommerce via Cartridge - a separate ecommerce app built > > for Mezzanine. > > - All functionality comes with default templates to get you started, > > integrated with Bootstrap 2.0. > > - Integrated with Django's sites app. > > - A set of generic foreignkey types and models: tagging, threaded comments > > and ratings. All denormalised with counts, averages, etc. > > > To be honest, you could almost implement everything Mezzanine does by > > combining dozens of different open source Django apps that are out there. > > What you get from Mezzanine though, is everything integrated seamlessly out > > of the box, leaving you free to focus on building your site. > > > In conjunction with the Mezzanine 1.0 release, I've also released Cartridge > > 0.4. As I mentioned, Cartridge provides a full ecommerce package for > > Mezzanine. While Mezzanine is more of a framework for building sites with > > any type of content you need to, Cartridge is much more opinionated in its > > function, namely how a store should be set up, and is more of a standard > > Django app that implements the most common features you'd find in an online > > store. Like Mezzanine, Cartridge has been under development for a couple of > > years now. Since I haven't posted to django-users about either Mezzanine or > > Cartridge before, here's an overview of Cartridge's features as well: > > > - Hierarchical shop categories. These are just Mezzanine content types and > > hook into your site's navigation. > > - Single interface for setting up a product, with 0 to N variations. > > - Arbitrary product options (colours, sizes, etc). > > - Hooks for shipping calculations and payment gateway. > > - Sale pricing. > > - Promotional discount codes. > > - PDF invoice generation (for packing slips). > > - Stock control. > > - Dynamic categories (by price range, colour, etc). > > - Registered or anonymous checkout. > > - Configurable nunber of checkout steps. > > > So if you have a CMS or ecommerce Django project coming up, please check > > out Mezzanine and Cartridge. If you have any questions or comments, please > > let us know via the mailing list. Myself and other members of the community > > are quick to reply on there, and always open to suggestions and feedback. > > > Mezzanine project homepage:http://mezzanine.jupo.org(includesa gallery > > of sites powered by Mezzanine, as well as a live Mezzanine/Cartridge demo. > > User: demo / pass: demo) > > Mezzanine/Cartridge mailing > > list:http://groups.google.com/group/mezzanine-users > > > Mezzanine docs:http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/orhttp://mezzanine.rtfd.org/ > > Mezzanine Git repo:https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine > > Mezzanine Mercurial repo:https://bitbucket.org/stephenmcd/mezzanine > > Mezzanine issue tracker:https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/issues > > > Cartridge docs:http://cartridge.jupo.orgorhttp://cartridge.rtfd.org/ > > Cartridge Git repo:https://github.com/stephenmcd/cartridge > > Cartridge Mercurial repo:https://bitbucket.org/stephenmcd/cartridge > > Cartridge issue tracker:https://github.com/stephenmcd/cartridge/issues > > > Cheers, > > Steve > > > -- > > Stephen McDonaldhttp://jupo.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. 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