Justin, I know what he was referring to, my point is that it is not documented.
And as far as being OSS (open source software), that is the biggest cop out known to man. Sure it is a big issue, but if you want people to use your product then easy to understand documentation has to be the number 1 priority. Other OSS CMS's that I evaluated for another client, was selected over farcry for that exact reason. We need to know that what we implement is supported, help is available and more importantly we can go to the documentation first, or KB's before posting stupid questions. I was very vocal about another OSS project in the Javascript world, and the developers attitude was the same as here. Till the project coordinator stepped in, and the thing is that while they were bickering about the fact it is open source, a new contender came onto the market and competed with these guys. Now even though from a functional / feature perspective this project I was using, started to loose momentum because the amount of people using the product dwindled and even though it had years ahead of its competitor, and more functionality. People moved away to the competitor because they had documentation, that was there main priority over everything else and the developer base grew as well. And sure enough, due to the fact that the project that had no docs was brilliant it no longer had a user base, so the project was not being patched or updated to any more new features. If you want to keep that attitude then stay how you are, if you feel that you could expand your user base then make it easy for someone to pick up read some information and get running in next to no time. Otherwise you will find that people are going to shift away because it is going to cost them more time and money than it is worth. Sad fact of reality. And you never know, you might get more people wanting to help develop the application if they have a means to understand it first. Andrew Scott Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 8676 4223 Mobile: 0404 998 273 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Carter Sent: Thursday, 28 June 2007 9:54 AM To: farcry-dev Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: new display template On Jun 27, 8:40 pm, "Andrew Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So are you getting confused with something else, or am I not understand what > your saying. Nor do I see anything about ftPrefix either. > > On 6/27/07, Stephen Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's because they don't have to be prefixed with displaypage. Its > > dependant on the data type settings. Andrew, all Stephen means is that the prefix "displayPage" isn't set it stone - you can modify the prefix for core types by extending them, or when creating your own custom types you can pick whatever prefix you want. To keep it simple though, just stick with the standard "displayPage" prefix that everyone is used to and then you'll never have to think twice about what to name a display page template file... -- Justin Carter http://www.madfellas.com/blog No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.10/873 - Release Date: 26/06/2007 11:54 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.10/873 - Release Date: 26/06/2007 11:54 PM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
