Greenguy's Board - View Single Post - Is it possible to create an open source linklist script?

Bill · 2004-07-23, 12:04 AM

Hi Entreri, I thought you would have something useful to say about this idea.

I had gathered from reading the phplinks forums that the version available for public download had a bunch of flaws.

As I understand it, and I'm certainly no expert, when you are doing open source development you break the job up into parts, and work on it bit by bit over time, ideally getting different coders to write different parts, so no one person get's weighed down with the whole thing.

Now, I know there's not that many coders here, so maybe traditional open source writing won't work here. For the moment, I'm playing a "what if?" game, just exploring the idea.

(Altho I am still guaranteeing the prize I offered before, I'm serious about that.)

venturi, I know what you are saying. But if an open source linklist script were available, the business oppurtunity would be to write add-ons and do customization of the open source script.

For instance, it's probably impractical to quickly write an open source link validater of xpowerlinks quality. But if you knew dozens or tens of dozens of people were using an open LL, you could write a validator and sell it, in a fraction of the time and hassle of writing a whole linklist PLUS validator.

There are great LL scripts out there, but some aren't easy at all to modify, and most are missing handy features. The benefit of an OS LL script would be that it would be easy and legal to write for, and anybody could contract to any coder to get their list customized.

So Entreri, what if I modified the prize so that the open script has to match a souped up links2 functionality, not so fancy an admin as xpowerlinks. How doable is that?

2004-07-23, 12:04 AM	#22
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	Hi Entreri, I thought you would have something useful to say about this idea. I had gathered from reading the phplinks forums that the version available for public download had a bunch of flaws. As I understand it, and I'm certainly no expert, when you are doing open source development you break the job up into parts, and work on it bit by bit over time, ideally getting different coders to write different parts, so no one person get's weighed down with the whole thing. Now, I know there's not that many coders here, so maybe traditional open source writing won't work here. For the moment, I'm playing a "what if?" game, just exploring the idea. (Altho I am still guaranteeing the prize I offered before, I'm serious about that.) venturi, I know what you are saying. But if an open source linklist script were available, the business oppurtunity would be to write add-ons and do customization of the open source script. For instance, it's probably impractical to quickly write an open source link validater of xpowerlinks quality. But if you knew dozens or tens of dozens of people were using an open LL, you could write a validator and sell it, in a fraction of the time and hassle of writing a whole linklist PLUS validator. There are great LL scripts out there, but some aren't easy at all to modify, and most are missing handy features. The benefit of an OS LL script would be that it would be easy and legal to write for, and anybody could contract to any coder to get their list customized. So Entreri, what if I modified the prize so that the open script has to match a souped up links2 functionality, not so fancy an admin as xpowerlinks. How doable is that?