On 08.11.2008, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wroted: >>>> In a couple of weeks I'm starting a medium-size project (using a web >>>> framework) involving a workflow implementation. Are you aware of any >>>> open source workflow engines/libraries that I could base the project >>>> on? Google returns hist for GoFlow (Django only, from what I can tell), >>>> itools.workflow, spiff (AFAIK tied to a CMS), but not much else. I don't >>>> think I'll have enough time to get acquinted with Plone and its offer >>>> of products. Has anyone here tried any such code? What would you recommend? >>> I would recommend to start with a problem, rather then with a solution. >>> There is not so much magic in workflows as you might seem to think. >>> >>> After all its "just" maintaining a state and rules for possible transitions. >> >> Sure, and I know more or less how I'd do it if I had to code from scratch. >> On the other hand, I don't want to code from scratch - if there are other >> viable options. I'm not a genius, but I think I'd manage to write a web >> framework too - do you really think it would be a good idea to start >> writing another one? > > I think Tino was more referring to the fact that state machines are too > trivial to write in Python to merit a whole framework. > > http://www.google.de/search?q=python+state+machine
To be exact, I used the words "engine/library", not "a whole framework". Thanks for the link, I've googled for articles and recipes myself and as I said, I more or less know what to do - I just thought it might be a good idea to ask whether perhaps the wheel has already been invented. Apparently I was wrong. GS -- Grzegorz Staniak <gstaniak _at_ wp [dot] pl> Nocturnal Infiltration and Accurate Killing -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
