Workflow engine?

[Grzegorz Staniak]

On 08.11.2008, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wroted:
 
>>>> In a couple of weeks I'm starting a medium-size project (using a web 
>>>> framework) involving a workflow implementation. Are you aware of any 
>>>> open source workflow engines/libraries that I could base the project
>>>> on? Google returns hist for GoFlow (Django only, from what I can tell),
>>>> itools.workflow, spiff (AFAIK tied to a CMS), but not much else. I don't
>>>> think I'll have enough time to get acquinted with Plone and its offer
>>>> of products. Has anyone here tried any such code? What would you recommend?
>>> I would recommend to start with a problem, rather then with a solution.
>>> There is not so much magic in workflows as you might seem to think.
>>>
>>> After all its "just" maintaining a state and rules for possible transitions.
>> 
>> Sure, and I know more or less how I'd do it if I had to code from scratch.
>> On the other hand, I don't want to code from scratch - if there are other 
>> viable options. I'm not a genius, but I think I'd manage to write a web
>> framework too - do you really think it would be a good idea to start 
>> writing another one?
>
> I think Tino was more referring to the fact that state machines are too
> trivial to write in Python to merit a whole framework.
>
> http://www.google.de/search?q=python+state+machine

To be exact, I used the words "engine/library", not "a whole framework". 
Thanks for the link, I've googled for articles and recipes myself and 
as I said, I more or less know what to do - I just thought it might be 
a good idea to ask whether perhaps the wheel has already been invented.
Apparently I was wrong.

GS
-- 
Grzegorz Staniak <gstaniak _at_ wp [dot] pl>
Nocturnal Infiltration and Accurate Killing