Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Moving Some of Photo-Album's Functionality to a General CR Extension Packages

Yes. I IMed with DaveB about it a little. He mentioned that Jeff Davis and Collaboraid might have some input on this. So I posted here.

To be specific, it seems silly that the photo-album has pa_expand_archive, while file-storage has its own set of archive handling commands. These should be (if they haven't already) consolidated into the CR API or standard set of extensions of it.

That's one example. pa_walk is another general piece that could be migrated to someplace in the toolkit (util_ might be better than CR).

Essentially what I'm saying is that I want several parts of the photo-album, but not the interface. I'm willing to start the process of generalizing it.

While I'm at it, I figured it would be good to see if others had thoughts about it and whether there are parts that should be redesigned before the process begins.