Hi Eric, Sorry to chime in dhis late, but I'm interestend in an eCommerce solution, too. I've been investigating PayPal and Google Checkout APIs but it is still not clear how to use any of them for a really simple "by this single item now without hassle" scenario...
If you're having anything (ideas, skeletons, code), please let us know! Tamás Gulácsi On márc. 3, 21:46, Eric Rasmussen <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks everyone for the responses! I unfortunately won't be at PyCon to > discuss further. > > So in terms of making this a real project, I will in the near future be > prepared to take on the majority of the work of the application itself, but > I've never worked on a large-scale open source project before and have no > doubt there will be things that I'm doing inefficiently (which I want to be > caught and corrected). Perhaps more importantly, I'm not as acquainted as I > should be with bitbucket or github in order to organize the code and manage > revisions. All of this is my way of saying I don't want to launch headfirst > into a big project and waste everyone's time by making it difficult to > contribute or give feedback while I'm learning that piece of the development > process. > > In the next couple of months I will be working on these things and gearing > up for some projects, one of which might be the beginning of a Pyramid-based > ecommerce solution. In the meantime, if anyone is interested enough (and > preferably has more experience than I do in the community) to talk further, > please feel free to send an email to me directly to get in touch. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Lance Edgar <[email protected]> wrote: > > I hesitate to chime in because I haven't yet looked at Pyramid (though > > it's on my list) and so don't know how much help I could provide, but FWIW I > > am interested in the project. I've just started diving into Satchmo myself, > > because I have a more or less immediate need to set up a shop. I've not > > used Django before either, but *have* used Pylons (if that helps?) and in > > general would prefer to become familiar with Pyramid next instead of > > Django. Anyway I guess I've just got a +1 for the idea at this point, and > > would be happy to help in whatever way I could. > > > Lance > > > On 3/3/2011 10:20 AM, Andrew Sawyers wrote: > > > Eric, > > Are you going to be at pycon? I’m 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. > > > -- > > 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. -- 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]. 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