[thelist] x-cart any good?

[Travis]

As a slight aside to this thread, what about Miva?  I've heard good things 
about it, but have no experience with it myself.  Does anyone know if it's 
any good?

-Travis



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeroen Wijers" <info at internetvraagbaak.nl>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] x-cart any good?


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>> What I mean exactly is that I read somewhere (maybe on zencart site) that 
>> the 2 guys hold the codebase for oscommerce, so it is not a normal CVS 
>> where people can contribute code changes and then those get approved 
>> (committed) by the community of developpers.
>> I'm not talking about contributions of modules which enhance and change 
>> the oscommerce you're using, I'm talking about the developpement of 
>> oscommerce codebase, the stuff you download first.
>
> I can image you saying that... today just got 25 email with updates from 
> the developerteam of oscommerce.
> Last mailing was a long time ago...
> But i am not using the CVS version, just stick to the "milestone".
> Oscommerce 2.2 MS runs on php5, if you change one line somewhere  = should 
> be  ==
> But indeed... not much reasons to say NO NOW to any other opensource 
> e-commerce solution.
>
> People holding codebases instead of having it spread over many developers 
> is i think one of the most
> difficult subject of discussion in the opensource world.
> I don;t take sides in it really... both have weak and strong points.
>
> To have another, more wild suggestion is using MAMBOPlus :) 
> http://www.mambo-phpshop.net/
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>> So why not zencart ? Is anybody has reasons to prefer oscommerce NOW ? 
>> (apart for the amount of modules/contributions available which are more 
>> important in oscommerce, but then zencart incorporate many of the 
>> functionnalities that requires tweaks and modules in oscommerce MS2.2)
>>
>> Dan McCullough wrote:
>>> I thought OSCommerce was still allowing contributions.  Interesting if
>>> they are not doing that anymore, that was a very good model and one
>>> that has work for numerous projects.
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