Re: Suggestion:

[Thomas Walter <balu@technologist.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from Thomas Walter <balu@technologist.com>     ******

Hiho Mike...

> I am quite proud of MiniVend even with all of its faults.

You can absolutely be proud of MV...

I was looking for a shopping system for quite a long time. All
commercial ones were too expensive or to restricted - so I searched for
free ones.
All I found were some small CGIs, PHP3-Scripts or similar. I was about
to give up when I got a messages about MV in the Freshmeat-Newsletter...

My first tries with MV were a little frustrating, but learning more and
more about it I have to quote Spock: "fascinating" ;).

A week ago another Shop-System was announced on Freshmeat:

>   subject: The N.U.E. Order 0.0.2
>  added by: Prudently Me on Feb 26th 1999, 07:07
>   license: GPL
>  category: Web/Online Shopping
> 
>  homepage: http://nueorder.netpedia.net
>  download: http://nueorder.netpedia.net/nueorder-0.0.2.tar.gz
> changelog: http://nueorder.netpedia.net/ChangeLog
> 
> description:
> The Network Using Entrepreneur's Order Processing System is 
> designed from the ground up to be fast, configurable, 
> powerful, and hopefully easy to use. It is a totally 
> integrated system. This suite supports multiple languages
> and it should be more complete and more powerful than 
> Minivend or other similar systems.
> 
> changes:
> General clean up of Makefiles, clean-up of creditcard 
> directory, general code clean-up and commenting and a more 
> complete ccproc.

The sentence "... and it should be more complete and more powerful than
Minivend..." made me look at it a little closer...

And what do I see on their webpage?

"Please note: This is software in progress.  Not all features are
implemented."
"CCProc: (not finished)"
"Some other features: (to be implemented)"
"Other features: (implemented at least partially)"
"Current Stable Version: NONE YET"

I did not go any further - I think I'll use MV until me (or the
Internet) is dead... :)
By now I love it - with all faults included...

     Balu
PS: Did you know that the MV-List has more "traffic" than bugtraq - the
security-list?
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