Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Anouncement: eGroupWare fork of phpGroupWare

[Dan Kuykendall]

R B wrote:

> G'day,
>    It's good to have varieties but I hope
> phpgroupware &  egroupware are not going to turn into
> phpnuke/postnuke/evolution/etc with apps having
> problem   working in each other. The developers are
> having nightmares trying to write code to conform to
> all of them (well at least the major forks anyway). To
> the users, there are not much different between them.
> Just bugs are slower at getting fixed due to scattered
> of resources.
>   I wish phpgroupware/egroupware will not have that
> sort of problem.
>  

I dont think there will be the same situation. The reason is that phpGW 
and eGW are going to likely move in radically different directions and 
there will be no intent from my to maintain any sort of compatibility.

>   As a normal user, I would like to make a suggestion
> (even it may seem stupid). Maybe I've been missing the
> point but from what I've seen is that phpgroupware and
> egroupware have two different business model.
>  

This is only one of the diffs. There is a diff of vision as well

> Technically, the two are still the same - ie. the
> underlying architecture is still the same - then why
> not have a central group that coordinate the
> developement of the core structure, much like the
> Linux Kernel.
>  
For the moment the code is shared, but as things progress they will 
become far too different for something like this.

For example, I think they will intend to have eTemplates drive the 
interface of eGroupWare and the apps for it. This makes perfect sense 
from their side, since Ralf (one of the forkers) has spent a lot of time 
developing eTemplates into a nifty solution.
However, I do not think eTemplates will work as well as they do, and we 
will be moving to an XML and XSL solution. All the apps will be focused 
on generating XML results which will be processed by either the browser 
or PHP's xslt support (depending on browser detection).

This is only one example of the fundimental diffs that are going to keep 
things moving apart rather quickly.

Dan