Re: [Openinteract-help] project alive?

[Teemu A. <te...@io...>]

> serious: I really believe that OI is currently the best plattform for
> developing web applications with Perl.

I agree. I tried several platforms (for example, Mason) after moving to OI. I 
personally like the quality of the code and available documentation produced 
for OI in top of the basic features that do everything smoothly what I need 
for a web application server. I also checked Zope out but I didn't like the 
ammount of features they have put into it, resulting in a quite of a learning 
curve to know how to do things the correct way. I also find OI very 
lightweight and SPOPS very effective in performance. I call it "Zope without 
the bloat" =)

The only lack in OI I find is easy creation of content without the need to 
create templates (I call them Fields) and also the possibility to build 
Validators (basic user input validation for the fields. For example a number 
based field for age should only contain numbers) and Constructors (converting 
abstract Field types to something like HTML based fields or something else).

In plone they have Archetypes (formerly CMFTyles) for such and in some other 
languages like Java I think they call them FieldEditors.

Earlier on this list I told I'm working on such an higher level platform based 
on OI and the alpha sources are already available and it sure reduces the 
development time of web applications.

Based on my efforts I have worked this week on a File Manager that features 
tree view, icon view and detailed view of files with meta-data. Some nice 
features include cut/copy/paste files and downloading selected files and 
directories as Zip or Tar/gz and also uncompressing such files in the server 
side.

For Chris, I would like to hear more about the final details how 
internationalization is going to be implemented in the next release, before I 
start to work on my own =)

-- 
Best regards,

Teemu Arina

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