Eric, Are you going to be at pycon? I¹m interested I briefly looked at porting something to repoze back at PloneConf in Bristol....but gave up, as it was a bit more then I was ready to chew.
Cheers, Andrew On 3/3/11 8:04 AM, "Brian O'Connor" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > I participated very briefly in the development in Satchmo (one of Django's > ecommerce solutions) and I do have an interest in developng an ecommerce > solution with Pylons/Pyramid. That being said, I have an interest, but no > time (grad school + full time job + limited sleep). > > Maybe this is a general pyramid question, maybe not, but one of the best > features I thought Satchmo had was that the shopping cart provided default > templates, and each specific shop just had to define a new templates > directory, and override the portions they needed and they would take > precedence over the defaults. > > Is that going to be possible with a pyramid ecommerce solution? > > What did you have in mind for product variations and product attributes? > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Eric Rasmussen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I've recently been evaluating the practicality of developing an open source >> ecommerce solution to handle products, customer accounts, shopping, and >> business reports/data analysis. When I've been approached with this request >> in the past, the conclusion is inevitably to use an existing solution because >> of the time involved and the difficulties with PCI compliance. >> >> With Pyramid's built-in support for auth (which is surprisingly easy to use >> with SSL compared to Pylons and repoze.what), the majority of the work would >> be left to developing a solid model and templates, along with options to >> configure or integrate payment processing solutions, tax rules, etc. >> >> Virtually all shopping cart solutions that aren't Google Checkout or Paypal >> require the business to obtain its own merchant account and payment >> processing account, and it would also be up to them to purchase secure web >> hosting or secure their own servers to PCI compliance standards, meaning this >> application wouldn't need to address a large chunk of PCI compliance >> requirements. >> >> That being said, the amount of testing and work involved on this project >> means it needs community support or it's doomed to fail. As a >> Pylons-turned-Pyramid developer who works with small businesses, I'd find it >> ideal to have it in Pyramid vs existing PHP and Python/Django solutions. Is >> this something anyone else is working or has an interest in? >> >> Thanks! >> Eric >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" 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/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
