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Melody - Movable Type's open-source fork
- Elepsis 17y agoHas anyone actually tried this out? I'd be very curious to see how people like it and how it compares to MT in general, as well as to WordPress.
- jonknee 17y agoIt makes little sense to use a hybrid Perl/PHP product these days. MT was suffering from being a Perl/CGI product and patched it up with PHP only to still be eaten by WordPress. Too little too late.
- misuba 17y agoSounds like Melody is an attempt at addressing the hybrid problem (amongst a lot of other problems).
- jonknee 17y agoPerhaps, but the source right now is exactly as I described. Seems odd to start from the CGIs if you want an all PHP system.
- james2vegas 17y agono, They want an all Perl system using CGI::Application, why would they want an all PHP system?
- jonknee 17y agoI don't know why they would want either honestly, it's not a real interesting problem and there are already plenty of solutions.
- reconbot 17y agoHow so? I didn't find anything referring to that on their site.
- autarch 17y agoMT is not a hybrid Perl/PHP product. You can run MT just fine without having PHP installed. The PHP stuff is, AFAICT, another way to write MT plugins.
- jonknee 17y agoIt's more than plugins, PHP is used to get around the ugly rebuilding process. PHP is required for "dynamic publishing".
- james2vegas 17y agoAnd dynamic publishing is what drives wordpress powered blogs into the ground when hit by the Digg effect. I hope the Melody project will better enable the use of CGI::Application or others for dynamic publishing instead of PHP There are already extensions for that, e.g. http://oss.iteman.jp/wiki/2/A_Perl_based_dynamic_publishing_extension_for_Moveble_Type http://oss.iteman.jp/wiki/2/A_Perl_based_dynamic_publishing_...
- rgrieselhuber 17y agoThere are easy ways around this with cache plugins. The MT approach was always just too painful to work with.
- james2vegas 17y agoAnd there are other ways to 'get around' the ugly rebuilding process which do not include making your site as digg allergic as wordpress.
- timmorgan 17y agoMovable Type was already open source. Their FAQ is unclear to me why this was forked in the first place. Wouldn't it be better to contribute improvements back to the actual product?