On 24 Apr, Rudolf Potucek wrote:
> Hi Guys!
Greetings!
> I admit I am somewhat unhappy with the basic concept behind midgard
> (then again
> I still do not quite understand it, either) so I went and looked for
> other products and I found this site:
>
> http://idm.internet.com/tools/km.shtml
>
> which lists all sorts of content management systems. Since Midgard ain't
> there I figured I'd give you a hint ...
Thanks! I sent them details on Midgard for inclusion.
> P.S.: I guess the things I dislike most about midgard are the lack of
> decent documentation (but I've seen you're workng on that),
BTW. This is something that everybody can help with.
> the totally non-obvious initial setup (both to get the engine running
> and to get a working basic page structure.
That is also something that is being worked on. I'd identify
the three most important steps here as:
-Getting Midgard bundled with Linux distributions (this will
require Postgres support as MySQL can't be shipped with
distributions)
-The Repligard packaging system will make installing and
configuring the basic Midgard applications (like Admin site)
much easier
-We need a generic installation script that would make
the process easier on platforms that we don't have binaries
for (I'm working on a solution for this)
Also, better documentation will help here.
> MOST of all however I feel there is a lack article management
> functionality, i.e. you can't add fields to the article type (at least
> not obviously) and there is no decent way of moving articles around
> or backing up while sections (at least not short of analyzing a lot
> of midgard code and doing some fancy SQL coding
> but that is just waht midgard is supposed to do for you, isn't it?
Eventually, yes. Most of the functionality you mention already
exists in the 1.4 betas, although the Admin site doesn't support
it all yet. If you want these functionalities, just get a recent
development version and make a custom content administration interface
that supports them. Or if that sounds too much work, then just wait
for a stable 1.4 release.
There are currently two different implementations for extensible
records support in Midgard. Emile's implementation is available
in the CVS, and the one created by Jean-Pierre Arneodo from
Initiative Internet will be shipping with Midgard 1.2.5-oracle.
Version control is something that nobody is really working on
at the moment. There have been some PHP-level solutions for
this, but sooner or later we'll need to have a real system
for it. This is something where you can help by contributing
design ideas or even actual code.
/Bergie
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