Forum OpenACS Development: Re: CMS forms + widgets versus Classified Ads

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Posted by Jun Yamog on
Hi Don,

Yes we need to reuse an existing code, although the problem is which one?  I guess some leadership, core developer or developers will layout a high level plan.  Hopefully other developers will try and use the plan.

Like in my case for example, if I am to implement this feature on bcms.  Which one should I take?  I am likely to pick Deds code due to familiarity.  Maybe just take out this function in classifieds to a separate service package.  But if there is some agreed high level plan on it, I might try that first and see how it goes.

Similarly in categories, the direction is to use Timo's package.  Although I am unlikely to use it now since I still use 4.6.x code.  I should prepare or keep in the back of my mind that eventually I will have to migrate my packages to it once it becomes the mainstream in 5.x.

Basically the area of generating forms from objects has no clear direction yet.  So we are likely to have different implementation.