[Noink-dev] Noink2 direction

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

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.

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