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2011-06-25, 02:20:03
Hi,
Even though I like using automatic installers, I'm voting against this here. It would introduce significant complications, and that is the antithesis of simple in a system sense. Wordpress' admin plugin install capability is remarkably good, but that's an enormous system, the opposite of GetSimple. MODx, a very well-established system, recently introduced admin plugin installs, and it kind of works, but often it does not, and their forum is now littered with posts begging for help (and those developers are very good coders!). This is what I would anticipate if we tried to do this here: lots of unhappy customers, and a support nightmare.
I think this is why this comes up - to the end-user, simple means having anything you want, anytime, with no effort at all. To the programmer, simple means a system without a tremendous amount of complex code, and that's fairly easy to use and modify. So there will always be this push and pull between those poles.
FTP of the files to the server - that's something I can easily live with. If that's the "bar to entry" for this system, I think that's actually good.
I think the end-users would have a better perspective on this if they actually had to code AND support something like this. But that doesn't happen, of course.
Cheers, Dave
Even though I like using automatic installers, I'm voting against this here. It would introduce significant complications, and that is the antithesis of simple in a system sense. Wordpress' admin plugin install capability is remarkably good, but that's an enormous system, the opposite of GetSimple. MODx, a very well-established system, recently introduced admin plugin installs, and it kind of works, but often it does not, and their forum is now littered with posts begging for help (and those developers are very good coders!). This is what I would anticipate if we tried to do this here: lots of unhappy customers, and a support nightmare.
I think this is why this comes up - to the end-user, simple means having anything you want, anytime, with no effort at all. To the programmer, simple means a system without a tremendous amount of complex code, and that's fairly easy to use and modify. So there will always be this push and pull between those poles.
FTP of the files to the server - that's something I can easily live with. If that's the "bar to entry" for this system, I think that's actually good.
I think the end-users would have a better perspective on this if they actually had to code AND support something like this. But that doesn't happen, of course.
Cheers, Dave
CSS and CMS development. Specializes in MODx and Wordpress.
