[XML-SIG] Re: Maki: great!

[Nicolas Chauvat]

> [Alessandro Bottoni] I can just speak for myself but I think that Maki
> is already giving us what we actually need: a robust, elegant, modular
> system that we can use as a skeleton for developing a full-blown
> portal system like "Cocoon portal", PHPNuke, ezPublish and so on. If
> we can leave most of the "general purpose" tasks (XML/XSLT management,
> session management, DB abstraction layer, etc...) to Maki, we can
> focus on creating task-specific "modules" (article publishing, poll
> management, calendar, etc...) that will eventually sum up to a real,
> full-featured portal system. That would be a really great achievement,
> in my opinion.

Others have been there already. Look at Zope (Portal, components, etc.)
and 4SuiteServer. Setting up a portal, integrating services, metadata,
databases, etc. everything is there.

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Nicolas Chauvat

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