Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Parent_id for folders with no parent in acs-content-repository

I would think a good cr/cms would be able to represent a website. I've been playing around with a term 'Content Application'. This is simply an application that is essentially dealing with content. In contrast, a shopping basket isn't a content application, or the APM, not. But a website has all the qualities needed. In the case of OpenACS the problem is most websites contain packages which are not content applications. Integration is a head scratcher. The point may be that the cr can represent:

  • Actual Content -- web pages, images
  • Structure -- directories
  • Mount points (pointers to applications/packages?)
  • Application data.

I guess the idea would be to replace the site map with something you could pull from the cr.

If this is pursued, it would be nice to work on Don's ideas of providing a simplified content repository that doesn't maintain revisions.