Re: open source e-commerce

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

"Brandon J. Van Every" <mylastnameruntogether@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:



Does the Lisp universe have any open source projects that are greatly
suitable to e-commerce? Like, possibly, Lisp's answer to Python's
Zope or Plone. This would be for a subscription based web service,
i.e. people would sign up and pay by the month. I don't want to talk
in any greater detail about the project than that.



Have a look at Uncommon Web http://www.cliki.net/ucw



They had a nicely laid out document with some FAQ questions.  Among them:


   1.2 What is UCW not?

UCW deals with managing user interaction via HTTP and nothing more, no database layer, no user authentication or security nor any content management systems. This is an intentional design choice: there is no way UCW could provide a single implementation of these features which would well in every setup, so instead of trying to be everything for everyone UCW will limit itself to help developers deal with interacting via HTTP.


I think this pretty much means it's not taking e-commerce into consideration. Rather, it could be 1 piece of a larger puzzle. Looking around at the other language newsgroups about this subject, the puzzle does indeed have several parts.

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