Re: Evaluating Catalyst and other frameworks

[Chris Travers <..hidden..>]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Alejandro Imass <..hidden..> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Chris Travers <..hidden..> wrote:
>> Hi all;
>>
>> I have spent some time looking at Catalyst to see what would be
>> required to make LedgerSMB run according to current development
>> approaches (close to the db, etc) and the result isn't easy.
>> Basically, at a minimum, the following would need to be ported:
>>
>> 1)  Our model
>> 2)  Authentication handlers and session handlers
>> 3)  While HTML templates could use appropriate Catalyst classes,
>> LaTeX-based views would need to be ported....  Similarly plaint text
>> templates might or might not be able to be handled directly.
>> 4)  Printing directly to a printer would require subclassing existing views....
>>
>
> Would this be an interesting time to look at a joint venture between
> LedgerSMB and p2ee ? My Inventory module was due to release in
> December but I paused it due mainly to stress. Most of the p2ee
> general framework ideas are done and only needed tom complete the
> first actual application. I would be glad to set-up a working
> development environment or wait until I publish the Development
> Virtual Box.

Absolutely.  What are your ideas here?

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
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