Wow, Bruce. Fantastic. I just finished writing up a cart & ordering system from scratch for a custom site that didn't need all that Satchmo has currently bundled together.
I'd love to help implement a standalone Cart & perhaps even a standalone Catalog, if there seemed to be much use for that. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:16 PM, lzantal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Bruce Kroeze <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > As you may know, I've been working on a gigantic fork of Satchmo. At > > DjangoCon, Chris and I decided that some elements of Satchmo are so > > useful that they should be separate projects, usable outside of > > Satchmo itself. Daringly, we decided that the payment system was an > > obvious first candidate for splitting out. I took the challenge, > > starting the development of "Bursar", which is the new payment system > > for Satchmo. > > > > I'm moving along very well now on the project. I have authorizenet, > > autosuccess, cod, dummy, purchaseorder, and paypal processors > > completely converted and working with a forked Satchmo. > > > > I've set up a new list for Bursar, > http://groups.google.com/group/bursar-users > > Please sign up if you want to participate in the creation of Bursar. > > > > This is *very exciting* to me. Splitting the payment system is just > > the first step in making Satchmo more usable for more people. I look > > forward to making this system as usable as possible for as many > > projects as possible. My aim is to make Django and Satchmo able to > > accept just about any form of payment with a minimum of fuss. I think > > I'm on the right track. Unlike Satchmo, Bursar requires no external > > libraries at all. I'm going to try very hard to stick to that level > > of integration ease. > > > > If you are interested in contributing to the project, please contact > > me and I'll get you a copy of the forked Satchmo I'm using. > > > > Other candidates for splitting-out are the cart, the "livesettings" > > system, and the caching mechanism. These will be much smaller and > > easier to do, of course. Payment is the big nut to crack, and I'm 90% > > done. In fact, if you use one of the processors above, it is working > > already. Actually it is working better than Satchmo 0.9, with more > > tests, and more control over payment processing. > > > > Wow.What a great news. > I got a project for it all ready. > It's a very simple membership system where would be only 2 products. > > I am going to give Bursar a go with it > > Thank you for your hard work > > lzantal > http://twitter.com/lzantal > > > -- > > Bruce Kroeze > > http://www.ecomsmith.com > > It's time to hammer your site into shape. > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" 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/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
