On 7/2/09, Andreas Heinlein <aheinl...@gmx.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > can you give a short summary of the differences between wpkgExpress and > wpkgWeb, and if wpkgWeb databases can be used/converted? > > Thank you, > > Andreas
I can't give a very in-depth comparison since I have never actually used WPKG Web before, I've merely played with the online public installation a few times for awhile. One major difference is that wpkgExpress is actively maintained, and thus contains the latest features evident in the latest stable version of WPKG. Since I'm the developer of wpkgExpress, I'm biased, but in my opinion wpkgExpress offers a more clean (less cluttered and more straight-forward) layout and a better organization of the internal code due to the use of the CakePHP MVC framework. wpkgExpress also utilizes jQuery for quickly carrying out simple requests like deleting, re-ordering (i.e. for hosts index page or package checks and actions), sorting, and paging. About the only thing wpkgExpress currently lacks that WPKG Web has is "download" tag support. I will add in support for this in a future version of wpkgExpress. The decision to leave it out was made early on because I had simultaneously been working on a more sophisticated "download" tag (that utilized PHP in my implementation) that allowed for pluggable modules for different types of downloads (i.e. straight-up download like WPKG has now, except md5sums are compared to check/guess if the newly downloaded file is "newer" than the existing one; downloads from filehippo (ability to check version/date); downloads from download.com (ability to check version/date); etc). Each module has its own set of required and/or optional parameters, with some parameters being shared among all download modules. I wasn't sure if there was any interest in expanding the existing wpkg "download" tag to have this kind of functionality (using a JScript implementation of course), but I currently have a working "proof of concept" somewhere that simply reads in a packages.xml and acts (appropriate version/date checks and other actions vary upon module) on any existing download tags with the "new"/different/custom parameters.
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