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