[Noink-dev] Noink2 direction
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From: Samuel H. <cri...@ge...> - 2002-03-09 00:23:51
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Some people have asked me privately about Noink2's direction (though, I'm not sure if they [or even anybody] are on this list). So I'd like to take a small moment and clarify things. First off, Noink was a single, massive, monolithic web-application. Noink2 will be a modular web-application framework. Noink2 itself will supply little more than simple housekeeping for other applications that are built upon it. Noink2 attempts to abstract out the user authentication, and user/application administration from the application developer, freeing them to focus instead on what their application does. Currently, Noink2 is far from complete, but does have a simple CLI for administrators to set up their basic Noink2 system. In the future, a web-based administrative tool will be made in addition to the CLI. A sub-project of Noink2 is noNews-lite, a "lite" version of my previous noNews attempt (truthfully, it contains code both from noNews, as well as code from Steven Rainwater's newslog CGI script). Currently, noNews-lite doesn't integrate with Noink2, but noNews (non-lite) which will come from noNews-lite will fit in with it. SO for those interested in helping out, please help by adding functionality to Noink2 as well as the noAdmin.pl CLI tool. -- Sam "Criswell" Hart <cri...@ge...> AIM, Yahoo!: <criswell4069> Homepage: < http://www.geekcomix.com/snh/ > PGP Info: < http://www.geekcomix.com/snh/contact/ > Tux4Kids: < http://www.tux4kids.org/ > |