Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?

[Ted Smith]

On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 18:21 -0400, Henry Litwhiler wrote:
> On 3/24/10 6:14 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > 2010/3/24 Matt Lee <address@hidden>
> >         I'd like to see a discussion on which PHP framework we
> >         should be using,
> >         if any.
> >         
> >         Symfony 2.0 -- http://symfony-reloaded.org/ is one that has
> >         already been
> >         mentioned.
> > 
> > Yes this seems to be probably the leading candidate from our
> > research too.
> > 
> > http://fatfree.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > Was mentioned on #irc too
> > 
> > Would be interested to see the thoughts of others ...
> >  
> > 
> While PHP could be a very good tool for displaying data and providing
> an interface with GNU Social, I feel that it might be worth
> considering making the "core" GNU Social application a desktop one
> that would perhaps interface with an existing, standardized stack
> (LAMP, etc.) to serve the files to other users' web browsers. The
> (Python? C?) desktop application could include basic setting options,
> but would probably be mainly just something running in the background,
> keeping the server/p2p connections live.

I fully agree with this - I see GNU Social as most optimally having a
server daemon that does "real work" whatever that is, with UI's in
various languages/models (web UI, GTK/Qt/Whatever UI, etc.). GNUnet does
this, and I think it's the right choice.

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