On Feb 18, 4:10 pm, Nicolas Steinmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of djWarehouse e- > > commerce system, developed on Django. > > Could you provide a quick bench / swot against satchmo project as it > looks you have the same objectives (being an e-commerce platform).
I've tried to explain why we did not used Satchmo in our first site we've build: http://djwarehouse.org/wiki/About (read at bottom). What about current differences ? I am not 100% sure because its difficult to quickly review Satchmo code, but here is what I've noticed at first look: djWarehouse itself is not a e-commerce shop, instead its a tool to create different e-commerce stores. To make an example, we took djWarehouse and created simple demo store (http:// demo.djwarehouse.org) but that is very minimalistic example. We plan to release a 'bike shop' and 'gadget shop' examples later, which will demonstrate the power of using 'product attribute groups' and 'calculated attributes'. I think the most differences are: 1. We try to keep djWarehouse very minimalistic. Satchmo, by design have everyting in it. This is true about core model fields and total amount of core applications installed by default. We think that developer would decide what is required, and add specific modules on demand. 2. We tried to make system as pluggable as possible. For example you can have own Shipment,Payment,Discount,Promotion modules which are defined in absolutely different manners. Product Catalog, Customer and other things can be easily extended by specific fields (via OneToOne models of Django). We don't hardcode many things in core, except a very simple, common ones (as for example RegionalTax which is common in US). We don't assume a things, like 'credit card payment' would be needed, so its not added by default. We think that someone, who makes store configuration, would add a required modules. When you look at admin site, you can compare it to Satchmo. Please also note, I think one of important differences is that Chris Moffit is much better communicator then we are, I expect he is natively speaks English, and he makes a good advertisement. Also it seems that he spends some amount of time into making Satchmo popular. We don't have enough time for that, since we are small company and all we try to do is make more e-commerce stores using djWarehouse, and document how we do it. We were afraid to show something which is half ready. Now it looks like we are almost ready, so we try to build sites on djWarehouse, and see how it works, and document things which worked well on our site. Regards, Alex --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
