RE: What do you expect?

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[quote="zaq"]There's nothing stopping you from taking the existing code and doing whatever you want with it. Have fun. Let us know when you have something worth looking at. :wink:[/quote]

Yes, I'm sure I will. I've customised OSC for my own use to the extent that I'm now very familiar with it's code. I also appreciate how much effort has been put into getting it just right - there are so many little features that people just don't notice that make it such a slick app. Reinventing that lot from scratch would take a long time.

BUT since customising OSC to do anything other than the stock layout and the stock functionality involves changing so much core code, then a customised OSC site becomes an effective fork. Perhaps I'm just being fussy, but that's what Open Source allows for ;) SO, if I'm going to fork anyway, then I may as well go the whole journey and strip out the cart on its own and integrate it into an existing CMS. After all, the existing CMS will provide for 80% of what OSC does (users, sessions, layout, templates, navigation, articles, catalog, backup, security, etc.), so there's only 20% to port. That sort of makes sense.

I am one of those who believe the cart of OSC is the best around, and the best bit of the whole project. If the project is now leaning towards being a complete CMS, then believe me - the cart will be dwarfed by the overall project. I think there is the potential to lose a very good thing by watering it down.

IMO the project should be tightly focused on what it does really well, and that is not by entering a saturated CMS market. If you want to go that route, then why not just create a CMS. On its own. Then strip OSC down to its bare cart and integrate it into the CMS as a module. Once you take that approach, you may begin to question why you want to create a CMS in the first place.

That's my take on the situation anyway. We may disagree on the direction the project should take, but we do agree that OS is great and the work put in by all so far has been tremendous, and really appreciated across the community. I'm not trying to knock the project at all.

-- Jason :-)

PS. I think I can sum it up concisely: I'm here for the cart.