Re: [mv] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Chris Rapier <rapier@psc.edu>]

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Andy wrote:
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> Hmmm...Minivend.
> 
> We have had a lot of the same problems...and many other problems.

I'm still having problems with it but I'm at the point where I think I
can handle 95% of customer needs without too much hassle. 

> Its been very frustrating trying to solve all these problems and bugs.

Most times the problems, from what I've seen, comes from a failure to
properly grasp how the system works. This is understandable though as,it
seems to me, you need a pretty good perl foundation to use minivend
properly. The way I look at it minivend is more like an abstraction of
perl routines. I've been hacking on perl for something like 5 years now
so its probably a little easier for me. However, minivend does have a
steep learning curve. I feel that this could be helped by:
a) Better documentation
   The existing documentation is good but room exists for improvement.
b) A cookbook (code fragments to solve common problems and tasks)

I know there was talk of both at some point but I guess its passed.
 
> We've dropped ALL of our Minivend catalogs and switched to using PHP
> scripting.  We found it much easier to learn PHP instead of all the
> Minivend tags.  

So are you saying that PHP doesn't have tags or that its just easier for
you to learn? I don't know as I've never looked at php. What sort of
coding background do you have? 

Chris
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