On Oct 23, 4:25 am, keymaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PHPshop is considered to be one of the more respected carts in > opensource. It has been around a long time. If I'm not mistaken, I > believe Joomla's Virtuemart was originally based on phpShop. > > This has to be one of the bigger news items to hit the cake world > since theMambodecision to build on top of cake. (theMambo > decision, btw, seems to have gone nowhere fast). > Coming late into this discussion I'm afraid... The Mambo decision to go with cakePHP was announced prematurely and raised expectations that it was happening right away. The project leader at that time has since left the project and the team found that there was nothing documented anywhere about the direction this change would take. The prototypes that were written were not left with the project so the Mambo team was effectively having to start from scratch.
This is still slated for Mambo 5. At the same time, Mambo is changing from GPL version 2 to the modified BSD license, which is more compatible with the cakePHP license. Development of Mambo 5 looks like it will be some time off yet. The Mambo team is small and currently working on a final release of the Mambo 4.6.x versions, which is the last one to run on PHP4. The next release, which should be out early next year, is a major release that has been under development for the past year. Unless other developers get stuck in and help move Mambo along, the baked Mambo will not be under sustained development until after Mambo 4.7 is put to bed. In many ways, this is not a problem - those who have looked at Mambo code recently will realise it needs a lot of cleaning up. This work is being done on 4.7 and the decision to go PHP5.2+/MySQL4.1+ only with this version will also help lay a good foundation on which to bake the 5.0 release. However, there is nothing stopping any developers from just getting stuck in and moving Mambo 5 forward now. If anyone is interested in working on this, just check out the info on how to get involved here: http://mambo-manual.org/display/contrib/Home Cheers, Lynne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
