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

[Jason Hall]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Jon Jensen <jon at endpoint.com> wrote:
> 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?

Ivan's stuff is still cvs, I've been yelling git at him for a while,
but it's low on the list I think :)

Each plugin has it's own repo, for example my Litle Module is on
github.  I'm sure any of them are willing to coordinate with code.


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