[bop-devel] Future Interchange plans + Business::OnlinePayment

[Jon Jensen]

Hi, everyone.

Some of you may be familiar with Interchange, most likely the 
longest-standing open source Perl ecommerce application. It's mentioned a 
few times in the BOP development status notes:

http://420.am/business-onlinepayment/ng.html

The Interchange development group is starting work on a major overhaul. Up 
to the current version 5, Interchange has been a fairly monolithic 
application that includes all its own payment modules, templating, 
database interaction, URL routing, etc.

Since it was created in 1995, a lot has changed in the Perl space :) and 
we're finding it would be better for us to build on others' work in the 
Perl community. We plan to build Interchange 6 on top of Plack, Dancer, 
and templating, payment modules, etc. from CPAN, with Interchange focusing 
on unmet ecommerce needs.

Interchange has long had a module to interface with BOP, though it's been 
only spottily used due to most users already having set up shop with the 
native Interchange payment modules.

Now we're looking at starting to use BOP directly, and I wanted to ask if 
anyone can tell us whether the notes about wanting to borrow code from 
Interchange in the BOP development notes are still current, or if BOP has 
got everything you'd expect would be useful from Interchange's 
Vend::Payment::* modules.

Anyway, if plans for Interchange 6 work out you may see more Interchange 
people showing up here as users and hopefully contributors. :)

Finally, what's the procedure for contributing patches to BOP modules? 
Does anyone perhaps have Git mirrors of the CVS repositories set up?

Thanks,
Jon

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Jon Jensen
End Point Corporation
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