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Geeklog vs. PHPnuke: A Brief Review

Authored by: moyashi on Saturday, December 14 2002 @ 08:34 am EST

ugh, haha, I\'m just like the rest.

Actually, I\'ve been watching GL for over a year.

To be honest I\'ve been playing with postnuke too for the past 2 weeks and I keep coming back to GL. Sure there are few things I\'d like to see but I have this gut feeling pulling me back to GL ever few hours of fiddling with postnuke.

However, I\'m getting sick of all this whishy-washy-ness, trying to decide which to go with. I wish somebody would just force me to go with one. hehe, I\'m sticking with GL most likely.

Concerns/ideas
- Why does everybody have to go off on forking tangents?
- I would love to see GL take the lead and bring up talks with some other script developers. Nothing against anybody in particular, but I just can\'t figure out why everybody is re-inventing the wheel? (phpAdsNew, oscommerce, phpBB/invisionboard, blah blah script) So much valuable time could be saved and used on bringing more goodies to the base system.
- true multi-lingua abilities. (hmm, postnuke is a bit better than GL o this)

This isn\'t meant to be a rant, it\'s just the past 3 weeks has going in circles in trying to find a solution for my ideas. haha, best bet would be to study programming once and for all.

:-)

Cheers and just gotta say GL is really really a decent system and crowd to be with.

Geeklog vs. PHPnuke: A Brief Review

Authored by: FlightSimGuy on Sunday, December 15 2002 @ 08:57 pm EST

Heres a hypothetial scenario that\'ll hopefully make it clearer to you why people fork..
Say, I wanna extend GeekLog to include new features that that delve too deep into the core, and can\'t be done with the API. So I modify the core directly and attempt to release those modifications as modified files (the custom users.php, comment.php, etc.) GeekLog developers refuse to accept them into the standard core. The next official GL release comes along and by this time, I\'ve extended my library to, say, 6 features, none of which can be done with the API.
Now to get them to work with the new version, I\'d have to make a complicated series of modifications (remember, these new features were released as modified files from the GL core). And the GL developers still refuse to include any of them in the next release, preferring to focus on refining the core rather than new features.
Then I say enough. I make my own release with all 6 features integrated and call it, say, BlahLog 1.0. From that point onward I continue on my own path with my own goal of adding as many cool features as possible to every release.

..And there you have it. :)

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