Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?

[Ted Smith]

On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 11:11 -0700, Jason Self wrote:
> Ted Smith <address@hidden> wrote ..
> 
> > The question is, do we want end users who install their own nodes to use
> > a standard daemon + UI (or just a single program that functions as
> > both), or a GLAMP stack + PHP GNU Social + web browser pointing at
> > localhost.
> 
> The web server + database + PHP model works in both situations where someone
> might run it locally as well as in other cases on dirt cheap hosting (without
> needing your web host to install "the GNU Social application") -- PHP is
> ubiquitous -- and has the added benefit of not having to divide the focus of 
> the
> community by maintaining more than one codebase for now. That isn't to say 
> that
> things can't branch out later, but that's /later./

To branch out later, we would have to re-implement the entire core. That
isn't something we should count on being able to do.

This is a discussion better served in the "Languages -- let's make a web
application" thread, however.

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