Re: General Rambling

Alex McLintock wrote:

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> Sorry for posting my last mail to the YahooGroups list. I replied to the 
> wrong message....


No problem.


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> At the moment I am wondering whether it is worth carrying on with Wyona 
> or deleting it from my hard disk and looking for something else.



DON'T delete it, rather update it via the public CVS.
Over the weekend I started a Wyona "Slashdot" publication:

http://yourdomain:yourport/wyona-cms/forum/introduction.html

There are still a lot of features missing, but it's a start where
we and a lot of other people have similarities.

I think the problem with Wyona is that the publications we have so far
based on it are too complex for beginning, and that still a lot of 
things are missing, because we are stll in the refactoring and migration 
process. There is also the problem of documentation. Please see Brian's 
emails within the wyonacms-dev mailing list.

But therefore  I started the "Slashdot" publication, such that we have
similiarities and people really start to deploy Wyona.


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> Now what I would like is enough understanding of what Wyona can do to 
> understand how I might build a system with it. At the moment I 
> understand nothing - I know what Cocoon can do but almost nothing about 
> Wyona.


Please, just shoot your questions.


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> I don't know whether it works with an XML database,


Yes it does, because Cocoon does, but it's up to you in the end.

 I don't know whether 
> it can cache lists of things such as review titles, authors, topics, and 
> so on,


What do you mean by caching lists of things? What is the goal?


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> I don't know how it will work if I don't purchase XOpus.


There is an HTML Form Editor we are working on, which has the same
pricinples as Xopus, but does everything on the server side, but which 
does not have the sexy "interface" of course. There are a lot of other
editors you can use of course: Please check out the developer and 
integrator documentation.


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> I don't see that installing the latest CVS version is the way to learn 
> all these things.


How would you like to approach the system? Do you  have specific 
suggestions for a getting started guide (user, developer, ..)?


> 
> Is the developers mailing list a lot more active than the users one? 
> Will that help?


Yes it is.

Thanks and all the best

Michael





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