[Typo3-dev] osCommerce extension "project" (Slightly OT)

[Christopher]

Hello, 

--- Gabriel Anast <gabriel at anast.org> wrote:
> I may have gone about this backwards, however...
> 
> At least three of us among the typo3 community are committed to begin
> 
> work on integrating osCommerce as an extension with full access to
> Typo3 
> variables, and later vise versa. We have discussed the problem and a
> few 
> solutions off list, and really needed to get other "osCommerce"
> people 
> involved. In order to do that, I asked Jan-Hendrik from netfielders
> if 
> we could have a newsgroup of some type on his server to allow us a
> place 
> where we could invite osCommerce people to discuss and work...
> 
> He agreed, mentioned that a "project" is probably the way to go, and 
> added that I should register the project on the typo3 projects page.
> 
> So my question is this: I don't exactly feel that this is a Typo3 
> project in that it will never be a fundamental Typo3 component,
> however 
> I do believe that this will be more than one extension. Probably on
> the 
> order of, well, lots of extensions... and will quickly become
> extensions 
> of extensions and the problems that that entails.
> 
> In short, if this does seem like it is "project" worthy, I guess I
> just 
> need some input from Daniel Hinderink on how to proceed, if it seems 
> like we should classify this some other way that is fine too.
> 
> If any of you have feedback, fire away, otherwise I will pursue
> making 
> this a "project."
> 
> --gabe
> _______________________________________________


Each time I see the 'os Commerce extension' subject line, I wonder
about something; if you guys are committed to undertaking a major
project in the first place, why not extend the shop module or write a
new shop/cart module from the bottom up? (I keep thinking that Typo3
*has* many features that would be very nice to have access to in a
shopping cart - simple urls, dmailer, fe-user management etc...)

I understand that you've probably already considered and rejected the
idea, but I was just curious about it. In either case, a more
sophisticated ecommerce option for the system sounds grand ;-)

Regards,

-Christopher


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