[This thread follows the discussion started on http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users/browse_thread/thread/9be2bdb7cff682bf(Status of paypal plugin(s)) about an ecommerce solution for symfony. It has been moved here as it was slightly off topic.]
Agreed on the fact that we should not reinvent the wheel (@Lee), that's whole point of symfony itself. Agreed on the fact that many great ecommerce solutions already exist and can be interfaced with symfony. But, AFAIK symfony offers a real plus when it comes to building complex and maintainable applications. Plus, when you have a development team trained on the framework, you want as much as possible to avoid injecting major external piece of code that will bring its amount of specificity, its own frame of mind / framework, and will inevitably cause you to dig on some specific issues related to that very piece of code. In addition, what if one of these os ecommerce solutions was built with symfony? Don't you think it would provide more? It would highly benefit from the framework improvements (integrated tests, security, performance, customization...) and therefore its community could focus on the real work. If we take the CMF example, how many open source solutions can we list? 30, 40, a lot more? And great solutions like Joomla, XOOPS, Drupal, Plone… All of them are in a really mature state. Then why Sympal? IMHO the first answer would be that it's a real need for the community. Because developers want to feel safe with their developments, to know what they integrate, and finally to be able to dig in quickly whenever they need to fix a bug. This seems to be the same pattern with our symfony ecommerce solution discussion. I would be interested in knowing how many people have developed ecommerce applications with symfony. RT @Thomas: How many people are willing to help to create an "ecommerce-like" open source project? Regards, Antoine LetsCod --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony 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/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
