On 7/10/07, Andreas Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael - would you mind describing in a few words where you see the key weaknesses of Lenya which lead to the failure of your project? That would certainly help us - and other (potential) users - a lot. Thanks a lot in advance!
I think the biggest problem I had with lenya was the complexity of the code. IMHO there is simply too much code in lenya for what it is trying to achieve. For somebody new trying to join the project and use lenya the learning curve is too steep. The company I worked for attempted to employ several additional programmers to assist me with the lenya project but they were unable to grasp how it all fitted together. Maybe the project could benefit from some 'big picture' documentation of how all the modules fit together and render pages etc. Also I believe the whole project could benefit from taking a step back and looking at itself from a distance. By this I mean evaluate what the software is supposed to do, and what is the simplest way of doing it. I feel like alot of what lenya does has been done in an awkward difficult way, probably because of the xml backend it uses. I know this is a very broad criticism, and I'm not trying to start a flame war. I'm honestly very disappointed that I couldn't contribute something that benefited the whole community. If I were try to implement a database backend for lenya again, I'd do it with hibernate and not the whole ejb/j2ee mess. MR --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
