On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 09:08:19PM +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, Chuck O'Donnell wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 04:05:06PM +0400, BeerBong wrote:
> > > Hello all!
> > >
> > > Are there any freeware content management systems kinda Zope or simpler on
> > > Perl ?
> > > What do you can recommend ?
> > > Where I can search for its ?
> >
> > Mason has one http://www.masonhq.com
>
> Mason is (IIRC) a component based development system - not a content
> management system. Think of a system that automatically takes care of
> object management, versioning, a test and live server, an admin front end
> (be it web based or not) and you've got a content management system. Throw
> in something like mason for developing components and you've got something
> really interesting for non-hardcore developers. They're not for everyone,
> but in certain cases they can make life easier.
I guess I should have been more specific... I think the Mason guys
have created a fairly nice content management system built on top of
the Mason component framework. The following is taken from the Mason
site (http://www.masonhq.com/Mason-CM/)
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We are proud to announce the initial public release of the Mason
Content Management system. Content Management makes it easy to
navigate the content of a website and manage the workflow of
information as it moves from staging to the live, production web
site.
Content Management features:
* Easily navigate multiple filesystems: create, copy, rename and edit
files and directories
* Search for files based on file name or contents
* Trigger (copy) files between staging and production sites
* Track changes between staging and production, save versions (via
Rcs)
* Edit files on staging, with an integrated, HTML-friendly
spell-checker
* File locking protects multiple users from editing the same file
* Control access to directories on a per-user basis
We'll be putting up a demo of Content Management soon here on
MasonHQ, but in the meantime, download a copy and let me know what
you think. You can also have a look at the user manual.
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I haven't used the content management system, but we've been using
Mason for quite a while, and find it to be a very stable and usable
application framework.
Thanks,
Chuck
