What do you expect?

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Hi guys,

First off, I want to say that the reason I even bother posting this - is that you have a KILLER shop - seriously. A whole lot of options, and it's very well tied together into making a shop that can deliver worldwide.

I don't want to start a flame-war, I'm just interested in hearing why you guys seemingly want to reinvent the wheel.

I've been using Postnuke and PostKart for quite some time and it has some features that you sorely need. mainly it's the permissions, the abilty to (re)move the blocks around and themes - without having to manually edit sourcecode.

IMHO you should stick to what you're obviously good at - The SHOP - and leave the rest to a CMS such as PostNuke. Many people have failed trying to accomplish it all - and many people have succeeded when keeping their focus.

My suggestion would be to do what Gallery.menalto.com has done. It is built so that it works as standalone, and in a CMS.

if you f.ex. choose to support the pnAPI (PostNuke thing) OSC would work in Envolution, PostNuke, Xaraya and PHPNuke (and perhaps still Xoops?).

In one swoop. Then people can use the CMS for what it's good at - text pages and layout stuff - and get the killer shop possibilities that OSCommerce has to offer.

If you're interested, I'd gladly assist (with whatever knowledge and time I can) and also I would think that talking to f.ex. the Gallery guys  (and viewing their source code) would get you a long way.

This is just a topic for discussion, and I'd be very glad if you were open to a dialogue about this. If no one in your user community is interested in it then peace be with you :)