In django, the derivaties are called Open Source Django Projects and described as stand-alone applications written using Django. They also have classifications into categories based on functionalities in the list. Is this something that can be useful to web2py?
https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoResources#Open-SourceDjangoprojects On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 11:52:28 PM UTC+8, Anthony wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 11:37:03 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >> We could make that distinction (additional flag) and have two tabs. >> > > We could, though see my other reply. Not all derivatives/distributions > have a running demo site, so it's probably best to include those kinds of > projects in http://www.web2py.com/appliances. It might make more sense to > enhance the appliances site -- (a) let users add projects, (b) enable > linking to other repos (besides the github web2py-appliances master repo), > (c) enable tagging, (d) enable linking to running demo sites or project > sites (in addition to the source code repo), (e) allow flagging of featured > sites to be displayed more prominently. Ultimately, it might make sense to > have a single site for both appliances and plugins working in this way. > Note, I believe web2pyslices 2.0 was originally intended to include this > functionality (i.e., in addition to posting recipes, questions, and > articles, it was supposed to allow posting of plugins and applications). > > Anthony > --