There has been quite a lot of work done to build a plug-in framework for DSpace 1.5 and rework the build environment to make it much more modularity-friendly.
This is a welcome improvement. Lots of people have been making lots of useful additions to DSpace, but their adoption elsewhere typically requires a good deal of expertise in the management of software development, if not actual development skills. I had to study Subversion rather intensely before I got my arms around the problem of coordinating stock DSpace releases, local modifications, and mod.s we got from others. The fundamental problem is that patching software, and maintaining patches as the underlying software evolves, is difficult. A lot of good work has been done which is hard to share with others. I believe that 1.5 begins to address that issue. It won't be the end of the process, but there *has* been a beginning, and I think a good one. Probably the most popular hard-to-maintain modification to DSpace is style and layout changes, and Manakin makes the coupling between presentation and operation a lot looser and better organized, which is what was needed. We're looking forward to doing less re-work per DSpace release after we've ported our JSPUI changes to XMLUI. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.
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