Tks for your opinions. So I take it that it may not be worthwhile to consider building a drupal-like CMS off web2py for non-programmers?
On Jan 8, 1:11 am, VP <vtp2...@gmail.com> wrote: > In essence, a CMS is not really a framework. Just like a forum > software, or a blog software is not a CMS. I think unless VBulletin > or Wordpress drastic changes their structure, they will not be as > capable as Drupal, as a CMS. > > A CMS is a platform to build systems that manage content. It happens > to be the the core of most web app are about managing contents. This > is why Drupal is very popular and powerful. But as you add features > on top of your apps that have little to do with the management of > content, you will find it difficult in Drupal. > > A framework is more general. With web2py (or perhaps other > frameworks) you can relatively easily build something like a Stock > Exchange App. With Drupal, you probably can too, but it will be more > difficult, and you'll have to piggy back lots of unnecessary things > that have to do with CMS. > > Drupal is very nice at what it is. But because of that I think it's > very dangerous. Most web apps have some form of management of > content. This makes it very tempting to quickly adopt something like > Drupal. But as you add on top of that core behavior other things, it > will bite you in the butt. But for 80% of web apps, Drupal does very > well. > > On Jan 7, 10:48 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Luther Goh Lu Feng wrote: > > > > On Jan 7, 6:37 pm, cjrh <caleb.hatti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Jan 7, 10:27 am, VP <vtp2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>> But as you go deeper, trying to add features, it will be so > > >>> difficult. Just to make the app looks right to your taste is really a > > >>> challenging job. > > > >> Ok, interesting. > > > > So quick question, is this challenge particular to the nature of CMS- > > > es like drupal, or just drupal specific? > > > I'd say it's pretty much true of the major CMS's out there (it's certainly > > true of Expression Engine), but it may not be because of the nature of > > CMS's generally. I think it might be possible to write a good one. > > Difficult, though, especially at the definition/architecture stage. It's > > too easy to leave necessary functionality out, and too easy to screw things > > up by patching it in later.
