Forum OpenACS Development: Response to please explain the decentralization of reuseable info in openacs (such as home address, business address, etc.)

Thank you everybody for your responses.

Jeff, your explainations certainly make sense

Tom, i would be interested in taking a look at the subpart of your merchant package... it sounds interesting and may be something i could model my events/registration package after (I want ot make it customizeable enough that you could easily accept job postings through it as well as signing up for events like a conference - by using dynamically generated information-collection pages - that can be templated)...

Jon, acs-person and acs-address sound like what i am looking for. i went into cvs (anonymously) and tried to download acs-person, but it said the package wasn't available. is there some place i can go to look at it before the release of 4.6? am i just using the wrong command?

#  cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@openacs.org:/cvsroot co acs-person
Should i be checking it out of some other server? How about acs-address?