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in thread What's the best Perl CMS?

Your wackiness is enjoyable, I admit. I also admit that I enjoyed Wassercrackers as often as not though so the confession is not exactly a ++. What makes me completely turned off on you and by association any related project, besides the modal popups which require the mouse to close the layout, is stuff like this–

I can assure you that WebAPP is far safer then ANY other CMS out there.

What?!? By what metric? Where's your proof? Can you even name the top 10 others you just insulted? Why on Earth would anyone take your word for it? Actually, let's trust each other. I can assure you I can be trusted with your credit card numbers. I am far safer than ANY other person out there with it.

The code for WebAPP CMS reads like Perl 4 written by an eXtropia tagalong. Here's a snippet from the first thing I opened-

#use strict;  not yet :-(

There's no higher praise for code than failing to compile under strict. No higher praise for a developer than to shrug and comment it out. Now with twice the emoting! Say... Old Wassernutters was a big booster for no strict... Maybe Santa got my letter.

Now, off to edit my CSS so I don't fan this smoke vent ever again.

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Re^10: What's the best Perl CMS?
by bantychick (Novice) on Jun 28, 2008 at 23:06 UTC
    Hi, this is Jos Brown, one who has worked since 2004 from the original WebAPP site created by Carter Brown (original copyright holder of WebAPP since 2001). I visit PerlMonks often but haven't said much as I usually stop in only when doing some research on some brick wall or another such as often is encountered when working on the WebAPP script. Members of the group that has been posting here were also members of the original site until mid-2006. As far as I know my criminal record is clean. :)

    About WebAPP code being "ugly", yes we know the code was a mess, and a lot of it still is, but we're working on it. After 4 years I can't believe we don't have it all yet, but like was mentioned, it's a huge program and keeps getting added to all the time. We've made a lot of progress on it as can run with warnings turned for a couple years now. This was not possible before.

    We are proud to announce that the new version (0.9.9.9) runs under strict for all public files, which is most of the system. We just yesterday released an RC to the public for help with final testing. Hopefully some will be bold enough to give some feedback. If anybody from PerlMonks is interested in Perl Open Source portal system development, we'd be very honored if you'd visit. Any extra help and feedback is much appreciated there.

    There are a few of us there working on the project and very committed to it's development. We think it's a great portal system, and it does also work well as a CMS. The code still has a ways to go but we're making progress. It's already very feature-rich and continues to grow the most in this way, as that's what users push for the most.

    Still working on the same old code as found in 2004 at the original project site...

    WebAPP Project: Web-APP.org
    Licence: GPL
    Original Copyright: Carter Brown
    Membership required to download: NO
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      "runs under strict for all public files..."
      Is this some sort of a joke?

      I see a much more advanced script at web-app.net

      What is all this talk about "strict", the one from .org is simply hiding all the variables... under qw//.

      What is the point to run strict if you are disabling it...
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