RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] phpGW NetxtGen and further developm ent path

[Christian Boettger - Mailings]

Hi,

> From: Alejandro Borges [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 6:24 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] phpGW NetxtGen and further
> development path
> 

> MHM...  Why didnt i think of this way for data portability?
> 
> In theory, HEAD will be XML aware in most of the core data (at least 
> accounts, categories, preferences, acl, contacts, calendar, 
> todo, notes and other apps as they see fit -email is not an issue-). If 
> this is the case, and we can dump a whole phpgw deployment in XML, it only
takes 
> xslt+ipc to upgrade the data to NextGen.

Would be even easier if the IPC stuff (ipc manager + the (in this case
simple) IPC interface classes for each app) goes into nextgen as well.


> Please dont take this as me siding up with either branches, i think 
> there must be a middle step between phpgw2.0 and phpgw 0.16 
> and that is head+16. 

ACK

> But, for developers on BOTH branches, this should 
> probably be the correct approach for any data migration from 16 onwards 

but first, we must have the apps in bextgen to migrate to; and those are
missing apart from the core apps... and not many head/.16 apps do currently
have IPC interface classes. 

CB

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