On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Chris Herrnberger wrote about the GOSLINGS movement towards postNuke, phpBB, etc:
> Everyone in the php crowd choses these but they can be a security nightmare. > Just a friendly heads up Russel. There is much higher quality stuff out > there..:) I don't know that we should get into this here, but being that you are the strongest promoter of Zope I know of (well, only ;-), I know what claimed "higher quality" stuff you are suggesting ;-) The lack of popularity and the time to personally do a security audit is one of the main reasons I have rejected the use of Zope on my own systems. Commercially, I have indicated that I would only offer Zope as part of a managed (dedicated) server as I am not willing to install it on an existing virtual server. The "many eyes make bugs shallow" is both a reflection on how well the code is written in the first place, but also how many eyes are looking. While the programming langauge issue (PHP vs Python) isn't an issue for me as I suspect I could learn Python quickly, it was a consideration for the GoC. They could easily get PERL and PHP developers, but most people haven't even heard of Python yet. Not to start a "vi vs Emacs" language war, but the MailMan list manager is quite often the only reason why people have Python installed on their server at all. --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> See http://weblog.flora.ca/ for announcements, activities, and opinions Submission to Innovation Strategy | No2Violence in Politics http://www.flora.ca/innovation-2002.shtml | http://www.no-dot.ca/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
