[Vtigercrm-developers] Why not gforge (for the record!)

[Mike Crowe]

Sergio,

I didn't take it wrong.  I knew how you meant it!  :D

OK, I do want to address the "Why not gForge!" question.

First off, as most of us are part-timers on this project, or the time we 
offer is. 

Second, being the geek I am, I install stuff like this just to learn how 
to do these things.

My home server was a test bed, and it is Gentoo based.  My laptop is 
Ubuntu, kids machines are Mepis, and I've done the Suse, 
Mandrake/Mandriva thing.  Overall, emerge beats apt/yum/urpmi and all 
the other installation tools hands down.  Not to start a flame war, but 
to explain:  All I had to do was:
    emerge gforge
and it was installed.  Then I got into the setup, and here's some points:

1)  gforge is not a cohesive program, as much as it is multiple (5-6) 
different programs loosly glued together. 
2)  Documentation is OK, but setup was extensive and very detailed.  It 
was not a simple process at all.

After a couple of days, I gave up.  Folks, I don't give up easily.  
Let's rephrase that as a time/benefit analysis was done (in my head) and 
I decided to punt.

Surprisingly, there are not many "forges" out there.  However, you may 
be seeing more and more of Novell forge, which is based on 
myXoopsForge.  It had all the elements I was looking for:  MySQL 
compatible, relatively easy to install, etc.

FWIW! 
Mike



Sergio A. Kessler wrote:

>mike, do not take this as a critic, just a curiosity,
>I know you have your reasons,
>your work in vtiger is invaluable and we all know this...  ;-)
>
>/sak
>
>On 1/23/06, Mike Crowe <mike at mikeandkellycrowe.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Everybody's a critic... :-D
>>
>>gforge based on postgres.  Absolute beast to set up.  This was much
>>easier and quicker to set up.
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>Sergio A. Kessler wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>mike,
>>>
>>>I was wondering why you used xoops instead of http://gforge.org/
>>>for the vtigerforge...
>>>
>>>cheers,
>>>/sak
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>
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