Alan Kennedy wrote: > This was the first mention I ever heard of Satchmo, which looks like a > very promising online store system. > > http://www.satchmoproject.com/ > > Anybody got any experience with Satchmo? >
I had a look at it a few months ago, and thought it looked pretty solid. The install was straightforward - three or four external dependencies - eg. PyYaml and reportLab if I remember, but everything was "python setup.py install". At the time, if you were using Django 1.0 then you needed to install the development (svn) Satchmo. As it turned out, it wasn't a good fit for my application because: 1) it had more functionality than I needed - my app is for a client's existing customers, so I don't need to handle user registration or online payments for example 2) the basic 'user workflow' wasn't what i wanted - my typical users are familiar with the listed products and will be buying in relative bulk, so I wanted items to be listed in 'datagrids' with an up/down number spinner for each row, so a customer could easily scan through various product groupings and choose '12 of those, 6 of those, etc.'. Satchmo, in a default installation, is designed for the scenario - 'go to product page X, add to order, go to product page Y,add to order, etc.'. 3) the basic class model wasn't suitable, and it was easier to create my own than adapt Satchmo's - different product groups in my app are categorised differently - eg. maybe by fragrance, maybe by season etc. Maybe Satchmo can handle this, but it wasn't immediately apparent how to do so. HTH G. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.ie/group/pythonireland?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
