Forum .LRN Q&A: Packages and where they currently are

Carl was aiming me today and sharing with me ideas about the OpenACS/.LRN packages. In the ideal technical division, all generically-applicable packages would be part of OpenACS and .LRN would be a light package and some configuration of OpenACS. A few months back, I divided the modules into 3 categories
1. Those that are part of the OpenACS repository and .LRN uses
2. Those that are part of the .LRN repository
3. Those that are part ofthe .LRN repository and .LRN does not use

I've heard that the OpenACS wanted to merge the CVS directories so the division between 1 and 2 will not be as apparent.

The other thing that happenned historically is that there are different portal systems in .LRN and OpenACS. If .LRN moved to OpenACS portal system, the majority of the packages (potentially new-portal, all the portlets, and the ones like "dotlrn-faq") would then be using standard OpenACS packages. I've starred these below ***

This isn't new information to those intimately involved. One approach to thinking about .LRN is that it is more of a marketing term - a configuration of a product that serves a specific set of users out of the box. Looking at the list, particularly #2, and removing the the ones with the ***, you can see that it is really close...

1. Packages in the open-acs repository that are used by dotlrn
acs-admin
acs-authentication
acs-bootstrap-installer
acs-content-repository
acs-core-docs
? acs-datetime
? acs-developer-support
? acs-events
acs-kernel
acs-lang
acs-ldap-authentication
? acs-mail
acs-mail-lite
? acs-messaging
acs-notification
acs-service-contract
acs-subsite
acs-tcl
acs-templating
attachments
auth-ldap
? auth-pam/
? auth-server/
? authorize-gateway/
bulk-mail/
calendar/
curriculum/
faq/
file-storage/
forums/
? general-comments/
logger/
monitoring/
news/
news-aggregator/
news-aggregator-portlet/
notifications/
photo-album/
ref-countries/
ref-currency/
ref-itu/
ref-language/
ref-timezones/
ref-us-counties/
ref-us-states/
ref-us-zipcodes/
rss-support/
survey/
timezones/
trackback/
weblogger-portlet/

2. Packages that are in the dotlrn repository and therefore are dotlrn-only

bm-portlet ***
dotlrn-dotlrn
dotlrn-portlet
fs-portlet ***
calendar-portlet ***
dotlrn-faq ***
dotlrn-static ***
new-portal ***
curriculum-portlet
dotlrn-forums ***
dotlrn-survey ***
news-portlet ***
dotlrn
dotlrn-fs ***
dotlrn-syllabus
profile-provider
dotlrn-bm ***
dotlrn-homework
dotlrn-weblogger ***
static-portlet ***
dotlrn-calendar ***
dotlrn-news ***
faq-portlet ***
survey-portlet ***
dotlrn-curriculum
dotlrn-news-aggregator
forums-portlet ***
user-profile

B. Those that would be not be considered in the core DotLrn product

? acs-api-browser/
? acs-automated-testing/
acs-interface/
acs-person/
acs-reference/
address-book/
adserver/
bookmarks/
bookshelf/
bug-tracker/
categories/
chat/
clickthrough/
cms/
cms-news-demo/
cronjob/
directory/
download/
ecommerce/
edit-this-page/
email-handler/
file-manager/
gatekeeper/
glossary/
intermedia-driver/
lars-blogger/
notes/
openfts-driver/
organizations/
page/
payflowpro/
payment-gateway/
places/
postal-address/
press/
redirect/
robot-detection/
sample-gateway/
schema-browser/
search/
shipping-gateway/
simple-survey/
site-wide-search/
skin/
spam/
static-pages/
telecom-number/
user-preferences/
value-based-shipping/
version-control/
webmail/
? workflow/
wp-slim/
xml-rpc/

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