I suggest that if something new is going to be developed then it should
be in Perl, using either Dancer or Mojolicious as the framework.
This I suggest since Dave is a Perl enthusiast, and I am currently
professionally engaged in Perl development of a system comprised of both
CGI, and psgi components.
It could even be containerised and then easily movable from host to
host. Using a container with nginx and uwsgi serving up the pages. And
another container with MySQL in it.
Whatever it is, it should not be PHP. And the pages should use templates
so as to separate back-end from front-end design work.
At a pinch, my second suggestion would be Python and either Django or Flask.
But there is likely to be less of a legacy of Python skills in the
current HPR 'staff'.
Don't take this to be me volunteering to give much time, as my time is
currently over-subscribed. But this might reduce later in the year as
some heavy research I am engaged upon comes to an end.
I will, of course, be hauling HPR over the a11y coals if I detect any
hint of a problem :-)
How many great shows could we get out of a complete rewrite of the whole
enchilada?
Oh, and keep the bleeping Javascript to a minimum.
On 26/06/2022 15:26, Ken Fallon wrote:
On 2022-06-25 22:32, Klaatu wrote:
I think what you are saying is that HPR requires a full rewrite.
I think what you are proposing is that we forget that the existing code
exists, because it's not worth "saving", and instead develop new open
source
code to replace it.
If that's correct, then I agree. Let's not dwell on broken code that
nobody
loves, but move forward with new open source code that actually meets the
site's requirements (and ideally makes the admins' lives easier).
-klaatu
Yes got it in one.
--
Michael A. Ray
Software engineer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
He/him/cis
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when
there is nothing left to take away." -- A. de Saint-Exupery
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