RE: What do you expect?

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[quote="zaq"][quote="mnemo"]I just ask myself, if 10 coders put a month of spare-time in this, to what result would it lead?[/quote]

Ask yourself this instead.

If I want it bad enough why don't I learn how to do it myself?  :wink: 

It's obvious that the OSC team has no interest whatsoever in working with CMS integration. Why can't everyone simply respect that? If you want something different then do it yourself. That's the beauty of Open Source.[/quote]

I already have next week there will be a new project at noc.postnuke.com that will be handeling this issue. I will also be including acounting and possibly pos within the same system. It will all be able to be administered from a centralized admin panel. I will base the accounting side of things on ossuite. Since they use an older version of osc for the shoping cart I will update to the current release snapshot most likely for the shoping cart part. 

Really osc code will take a while to go through as there is no central api. The first part will be to seperate all the html out and make templates for it then from what is left it will be converted over to an api. The rest of osc can be done through hooks and blocks. It will be very simple to handle ratings and comments for instance as this is already a part of postnuke and can be doen with a simple hook. most of the rest of the functionality is simply blocks. 

I would estimate about a 2 month release for at least people to have something to look at. There will also be some more projects like a gallery module way beyond current functionality of others out now. This will be able to hooked into postosc or whatever it is named to allow for instant thumbs for the pics as well as for instance a gallery for each product. 

Another poster is right it's about time that these things be taken care of we have all been waiting to long. The ossuite guys have given me the ok for this little project. The osc team seems to be more or less indiferent so good luck to them but it's time to take things to the next level.