[Calendula-devel] GNUe analysis - might be helpful

[Darryl Caldwell]

Analysis of GNUe framework...

I am not sure that is a good idea, since I did spend a lot of time on it
a while back. But I think we can do this right here and then someone can
summarize.

Why GNUe isn't good for Calendula:

* Poor documentation (the current developers prefer IRC)
* Unstable framework
* Poor support (very little list traffic), limited adoption
* inflexible UI design

I used spent a couple of weeks downloading their IRC logs and grepping
for the answers to my questions. I eventually decided that this is not a
good foundation to build one's house upon. When I pointed this out to
them they said, "well that's how we like to work."

A better analysis would be to look at the GNUMED project
(www.gnumed.org).


On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 10:14, Jason Maas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm excited to see the traffic on this list increasing and things starting
> to roll!  I have a thought for an exercise that could be very helpful for
> us.
> 
> I think it might be wise to do some sort of analysis of the GNUe project
> (www.gnue.org).  I think it would be helpful to understand their
> architecture and learn from their experience.  If we're not going to join
> them then I think someone should write down why and what we want to do
> differently.  That would help us avoid reinventing the wheel and probably
> be useful in the future as people stop in and ask how Calendula is
> differnt from GNUe.
> 
> I'm just thinking of a simple one page writeup with some bullets and a
> summary.  Does this sound useful?  Anyone wanna give it a shot?
> 
> Jason
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