on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:12:56AM -0800, Greg Wiley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Good day! > > I need to set up an organizational web site that will have some > characteristics of a weblog (for editorial and news) and some of a > group site ( shared calendar and contacts, etc.) . I will need to > develop some specialized applications over time. This is for a church > so it will have some public functionality and some internal, protected > functionality. > > My goals include extensibility, low operational maintenance, and > Debian compatibility. > > I have looked at several content management systems for a basis and > wonder what Deb users' experiences are. Some notes on the research so > far: > > - I started installing Slash and found that it requires mods to > Debian-installed components. It also appears to be a resource hog. > > - PHP-Nuke seems good except I am concerned about the tight coupling > of logic/presentation and how it will affect extensibility and the > resultant code maintenance. > > - Zope and Zope CMF are also interesting, particularly as they are > Deb packages and are built for extensibility. My only concern is > that I haven't seen any Z-CMF examples, including the dog bowl, > that really connect to what I am doing.
Some perspective to add to your search. Slash code is widely reviled...but it works for Slashdot. Apparently it's being largely rewritten. I'd probably vote against it. PHP-Nuke's got some useful features <cough>stolen</cough> from a project I've some familarity with...but they're the right features to steal. There are those who'll tell you PHP's not a real language. It's had some pretty glaring security issues. Pro: seems to have a nice feature set. Fairly popular for new forum sites. Con: how do you feel about PHP? I've had a hand in designing Scoop, which runs Kuro5hin.org (currently offline due to a colo issue), see also http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/. It's extensible, currently serves ~100k pages/day off a 4x PII XEON box. Ran off of Rusty's workstation for about the first six months of K5's existence. Pro: Modular. Good performance. Active development. Nice featureset. Actively used in projects similar to yours. Con: Perl. Rusty doesn't listen to all my suggestions ;-) I'm also part of a community that's now running on a Zope forum pretty much thrown together in a few days by a friend. Don't ask about the layout, but it serves a few hundred registered users about 6,000 pages per day: http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/board/show?boardid=1 Pro: Modular, quick development. Python -- tends to lead to clean, reusable code. Con: Possible performance issues. Some funkiness in the HTML built-in parsing. > Since all the solutions require a considerable time investment > for research and implementation, I am just looking for some > pre-advice before I get too far down any particular road. The good news is that _all of these options work_. You're going to have a working site whichever way you go. I seriously doubt your church will stress the capacity of any of the systems listed. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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