Perhaps. To me the main questions are "does the framework do what I need it to do in an efficient way where efficiency is measured both in developer effort and machine utilisation?" and "If this gets orphanned am I in a position to fork and maintain it myself?" the second one involves reading through the code a bit to decide if I can work with it.
If the framework isn't reasonably complete, knowing that there is a developer community behind it helps with the belief that the missing bits will be filled in but it also tends to lead to feature bloat. Having a single visionary person can lead to a leaner more efficient (developer/machine) framework. Just my $2 worth. Bruce On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Ivan Kurnosov <[email protected]> wrote: > And a resume from me (if anyone is interested): even though it's a good > thing to write a custom framework from the scratch, but the most drawback > for the community is that they are going to depend on a single person who > won't have enough time to write documentation and fix bugs. > > Sad but true - for newbies it's better to take a mature framework (they > have better communities, more stable code and some "guarantee" to exist > some more time); > for advanced developers it's better to take a mature framework as well (we > all need stability, we're already done with experiments) > > :-) > > May be I'm very wrong, but if I needed something to build a small RESTful > API app - I'd take silexphp or kohana; or ZF1/ZF2/Symfony2 otherwise > > > On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 10:57:25 AM UTC+12, chtombleson wrote: > >> New PHP 5 web framework Powerstack. >> >> Currently in beta >> >> Website: http://powerstack-php.org/ >> Github: >> https://github.com/powerstack/**powerstack<https://github.com/powerstack/powerstack> >> >> >> Powerstack is a full featured framework that draws on some of the most >> popular frameworks out there. Powerstack mainly draws ideas from >> Dancer<http://perldancer.org>a perl web framework. >> >> Powerstack includes a very powerful plugin and hooks system, this make it >> very easy to extend the core functionality or provide your own custom >> functionality. >> >> The most interesting and cool thing in Powerstack is how you define your >> routes/urls. It uses a similar system to that in >> Dancer<http://perldancer.org> >> . >> This makes creating Restful web applications easy and straight forward. >> >> -- > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NZ PHP Users Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Bruce Clement Home: http://www.clement.co.nz/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bruce_Clement "Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field." Mikhail Kalashnikov -- -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NZ PHP Users Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
