RE: Future Aegir Development

Hi,

> From: Torben Nehmer [mailto:[email protected]] 
> - --Michael Ross (PCT North West) wrote on 2005-04-28 09:22:
> > I agree that everything should be under one roof so to 
> speak - a complete
> > administration and editing package.  For Aegirs future 
> development (and
> > survival), it must keep up to date with the state of 
> Midgard/MidCom to
> > enable future developments to be made easily.  Developments 
> at the moment
> > seem to be like trying to get a square peg into a round 
> hole rather than an
> > easy blending of the base Midgard/Midcom platform.
> 
> As far as I know the Aegir codebase, it is not possible to 
> integrate it directly
> and, which is most important, cleanly into MidCOM. MidCOM is 
> its own framework,
> and the only thing Aegir can do is *duplicate* the 
> functionality. Unless you do
> a complete rewrite you cannot *integrate* with the 
> functionality, which is a
> very important (and nasty) difference.

Sad but true.

> Exactly this is the reason why I propose to simply drop Aegir to a
> Maintain/Bugfix only state and to build a new solution on top 
> of MidCOM, which
> makes real use of the framework, instead of trying to rebuild 
> what is already there.

+1

Solt