[CIMC-working] da code bases

[Doug Morris]

OK...

Is it a good idea to explore switching to another code base, for extra 
features (not colors :) when doing the server switch?

If so, it sounds like the best options for flexibility of the whole site 
are SF Active and Dada.

When I read about features of those two, I liked Dada better for various 
features.

On rewrite of code:  I heard somewhere in last few months there was an 
attempt to reconcile the innovations in various permutations of active and 
come out with an active version 2.

Doug

At 02:13 PM 10/29/02 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote:
>On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:55, Doug Morris wrote:
> > I remember mention of there being a big revision going on of active...
> > what do you think of that?
>
>There's many revisions.  SF Active is the one with closest ties to
>Standard Active -- all the others are significantly divergent.
>
>Mir is popular in Europe, I think in large part because it's well
>internationalized.  It also uses static publishing, where articles are
>published to plain HTML pages, and served from there.  This is more
>robust (since once something is successfully published it's not going to
>go anywhere), requires less load (serving static pages is essentially
>bandwidth-limited), and also much easier to mirror.  But it's also
>written in Java, which makes it much harder to work with.  Of course,
>mirroring can take a few forms -- mirroring past content for robustness
>against technical, legal, or other obstacles; mirroring present content
>for load reasons; and mirroring the live site so a functional site can
>be moved in case of an obstacle.  Static publishing only helps with the
>first two -- the last is always more complicated, and Mir's Java makes
>it even more complicated (since Java is poorly supported with free
>software).
>
>SF Active is largely like active, with a few added features and lots of
>code cleanup.  Also uses MySQL, which is more robust under load, and
>easier to work with in several ways.  Written in PHP, like Standard.
>
>dadaIMC is a new codebase written from scratch.  It's fairly similar to
>SF Active in features, but I think with greater emphasis on quality of
>code -- new features are also being added quickly, and I think it's
>overtaking SF Active.  Also written in PHP, with a MySQL database.
>
>There's a couple sites that use other kinds of software developed for
>other purposes -- Slash (which powers slashdot.org) and PostNuke (a
>general-purpose web framework) are being used, I believe.  I don't see
>any real attraction to those.
>
>Those are all the codebases that seem ready to be used.  There's some
>others in development, but I don't think we need to concern ourselves
>with those now.
>
>   Ian