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Thursday 05 August 2004 8:48:53 am
Hi. I'm currently looking for a CMS to use. ez-publish looks
quite attractive to me; but there's an oddity about what I want
to implement, and I'm not sure that ez-publish (or, for that
matter, any other CMS) does what I"m looking for.
The main purpose of the site will be to provide a nice front-end
to a file library, enabling web users to upload to the library,
browse/search the contents (with representative images, and
user comments, for each entry), and download from the library.
Think something along the lines of kde-look.org. Other content
will eventually be provided also, but the file library is the
main thing.
My main constraint is in the nature of the file library/database.
Ideally, I'd need the CMS to either be quite flexible as far as
the nature of the file library structure, or (even better) the
CMS should play well with CVS repositories. The reason is that
the downloadable files themselves are to be drawn from a CVS
repository. The reason for this is rather convoluted, but basically,
this file library will join several already in use by this project.
The others are CVS repositories and have multiple world-wide mirrors.
Putting this new file library in a CVS repository as well allows
the project to easily use the existing infrastructure for maintaining
the file library and for mirroring the contents to the other sites.
But this file library is targeted at a user community that will find
it pretty user-hostile and uninformative to browse the CVS
repository in the usual fashion; hence the desire for a CMS that can
provide a better front-end. Is this possible with ez-publish? Thanks very much for any help. -c
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