I'll try to respond to some of these points. To be fair, I haven't spent much time looking at the internals of djWarehouse. From the surface, it seems like they have some good experience and design going into the product. I'll point out some differences - but they are mostly based on looking at the site and not actually playing with the code:
- Satchmo is a community app while djWarehouse is built by a company (but released open source) and used for their needs. There are at least 5 Satchmo stores in production and probably more out there that I don't know about. Our mailing list has over 400 users and the dev list has about 75 people. We do get lots of patches and bug fix suggestions from the community but there are only 4 of us with commit privileges. djWarehouse has more of a dedicated team. I don't know that one model is better than the other - they are different. Satchmo has addition features such as: - payment modules for Authorize.net, Paypal, Google, cybersource and trustcommerce. It also has a COD module and auto success module which might be useful for certain types of sites. - UPS integration for estimating shipping charges. - support for multiple product types including gift certificates, downloadable products, custom products, etc. - Satchmo allows you to generate PDF invoices and packing slips. - supports multiple shipping calculation methods and includes geographic info for most countries. - Satchmo allows translation of content and allows you to test the different translations. - Satchmo has extensive unit tests - There are probably others but these are some of the things that come to mind immediately. To be fair, Satchmo has 2 main warts: - The product models are not as extensible as we'd like. It can be done but it could be cleaner. I'm hopeful that the new model inheritance code will help us out. - The admin interface could be slicker. Our plan is to tackle that as part of the newforms admin merge. There's also a constant struggle with building "frameworks." Trying to decide what does and does not go in is hard. Sometimes I think we hit it right and other times I'm not sure. I think the djWarehouse crew felt we had too much in the framework. It's a fair comment and reasonable people may disagree on this point. I will also freely admit that I am a native english speaker (and do not speak any other languages with any proficiency whatsoever) and that I do try to spend time promoting Satchmo ;) My main goal is to let people know there is a reasonable alternative to OsCommerce! I don't want to put down djWarehouse or other projects. I suspect there is a lot we can learn from their project and would welcome any specific criticisms or suggestions for improving Satchmo. It's a big internet out there and there are a lot of different needs. I'd prefer to have 1 framework out there to consolidate efforts but sometimes that just isn't possible. If someone has played with both versions and has any more specific details, feel free to let me know. -Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
