On Jan 8, 12:48 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Jan 7, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Luther Goh Lu Feng wrote: > > > > > On Jan 7, 6:37 pm, cjrh <caleb.hatti...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Jan 7, 10:27 am, VP <vtp2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> But as you go deeper, trying to add features, it will be so > >>> difficult. Just to make the app looks right to your taste is really a > >>> challenging job. > > >> Ok, interesting. > > > So quick question, is this challenge particular to the nature of CMS- > > es like drupal, or just drupal specific? > > I'd say it's pretty much true of the major CMS's out there (it's certainly > true of Expression Engine), but it may not be because of the nature of CMS's > generally. I think it might be possible to write a good one. Difficult, > though, especially at the definition/architecture stage. It's too easy to > leave necessary functionality out, and too easy to screw things up by > patching it in later.
Looking at web2py, we already have an IDE, a wizard, and a plugin wiki. Might be the beginnings of a drupal-like CMS for this year's web2py exhibition.
