Re: Launching PostgreSQL KB Project Mark 2

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 15:21, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On the other hand, I wouldn't blame you if you thought that
> > the latest KB effort was liable to founder and die and that
> > you needed to have a back-up.
> > It wouldn't be the first one.  But in that case I'd suggest
> > looking at adapting something existing (like Bricolage,
> > Framewerk, Drupal, etc.) rather than coding up from scratch.
> > If you keep your requirements simple, at least one of these
> > should suffice, and has the tremendous advantage of having
> > external code maintainence, documentation, and help.
>
> I did look at this. It was my evaluation that it would take me *more*
> work to adapt something like Drupal to my requirements, than to code
> from scratch. It's not as easy as one would like it to be to make these
> CMSes integrated into something existing. They tend to be designed to be
> the "master system" that can plug in your own custom modules in, not to
> be one of those custom modules.
>

FWIW Gevik also looked at drupal. I actually think he did really good
trying to get it to work but in the end he also concluded it wasn't
quite right.


Robert Treat
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