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#1 2008-05-18 16:49:43
- elihu252
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Future of Texpattern?
I have been a diehard user of Textpattern for several years now and have nothing but love for it.
However, I am a little concerned about the future of the CMS as I continue to develop websites. I am beginning to see more and more jobs out there for Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress coders. I am not too concerned about those jobs, but it got me thinking why Textpattern hasn’t taken off like some of the other options out there. The activity of the TXP developer blog and forums is also lacking in my opinion.
My point is I want to dive deeper into developing Textpattern sites, but I don’t want TXP support to fade away. Would it be wise for me to start learning Wordpress or another alternative? What are your opinions on this matter?
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Re: Future of Texpattern?
I know which improvements will be available in the 4.0.7 release and although I’m hardly objective in this matter, I think those improvements are substantial.
If you love TXP, why let the popularity of other CMS influence your decision? Your opinion matters here, not that of others.
As for support in these forums. With the current level of activity, it’s possible for someone to read all new posts and perhaps respond as well. Increase that forum activity 10-fold and you’ll see a lot more unanswered questions and topics that quickly drop out of sight. More activity is not necessarily better.
I’ll try to be more active in the developer weblog. I know wet has similar plans.
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#3 2008-05-18 19:35:06
- lee
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Re: Future of Texpattern?
ruud wrote:
I know which improvements will be available in the 4.0.7 release
Any chance of a brief list or is there already one?
Best wishes
Lee
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The history.txt file is partially updated. You can see the remaining improvements (so far) since revision 2880 here
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Any chance of a brief list or is there already one?
Edit: Ruud!
Last edited by jm (2008-05-18 19:45:43)
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Re: Future of Texpattern?
elihu252 wrote:
Would it be wise for me to start learning Wordpress or another alternative?
It doesn’t hurt to try other alternatives, I’m always trying things out myself. Today, most any computer can run an Apache/MySQL/PHP development environment. Linux and Mac OS X have it built in, Windows has XAMPP, WAMP and others.
What are your opinions on this matter?
I use Textpattern cause it’s almost as light as putting up html pages, yet you have a easy way of maintaining the site. As for the job, learn HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, cause once you learn how to drive one system, they’re all principally the same.
Last edited by hcgtv (2008-05-18 21:31:23)
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#7 2008-05-18 23:06:38
- elihu252
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Re: Future of Texpattern?
thanks for the feedback. I wouldn’t necessarily choose a CMS because of its popularity. However, I think popularity compliments any open source project due to more collaboration, bug testing, extensions, etc…
I am totally happy with Textpattern right now. It suits me perfectly, but I would like to see it expand in the future. I do think the homepage could be a little bit better, or at leas updated from what it looked like when TXP started.
And I am glad you guys are trying to update the developer blog more often, because that’s actually what made me start this post. I started my last TXP project 5 months ago and it looks like there have only been 3 updates to the dev blog.
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#8 2008-05-18 23:30:29
- Ruhh
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Re: Future of Texpattern?
Any clue on a date for an official download on the new version of TXP or is the new version still getting in some more features and etc?
Last edited by Ruhh (2008-05-18 23:33:22)
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Re: Future of Texpattern?
Just a guess, but ~2-4 months from now. You can always get the latest development version from svn.
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