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

[Peter Ajamian]

Hi everyone, I'm coming over from Interchange as well.

On 15/04/11 11:32, Ivan Kohler wrote:
> These processors don't appear to have B:OP modules, so they might be 
> useful to port over:
> 
> NetBilling

That one's mine and it's based on an old API, so I think it would be 
better to re-write it based on their newer API.  That said, I tend to do 
this sort of work when I have a client who is willing to pay me for it. ;-)

> Some of them (GoogleCheckout, any others that are third-party payment 
> systems and not gateways) may not be relevant to the B:OP framework.
> 
> As an aside, we've been working on a prototype framework for third-party 
> services like PayPal and Google Checkout, called 
> Business::OnlineThirdPartyPayment.  Personally I think we should rename 
> before uploading to CPAN.  :)  The base module, a dummy processor module 
> and two real processor modules are available from 
> http://freeside.biz/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/

A lot of the gateways are starting to use a similar model of sending the 
customer off-site for payment in addition to the option of using the 
gateways API for fully integrated payment.  This is very advantageous to 
  smaller businesses because it very neatly avoids the hassles of 
dealing with PCI requirements.  I can see a general movement in that 
direction for most or nearly all new ecommerce websites just because of 
the increasing difficulties of complying with PCI nowadays.

>> Does anyone perhaps have Git mirrors of the CVS repositories set up?
> 
> Jayce> Ivan's stuff is still cvs, I've been yelling git at him for a 
> Jayce> while, but it's low on the list I think :) 
> 
>> Heh. Well, Ivan, if you want help converting repos from CVS to Git, 
>> I'd be happy to help or just plain do it for you. I've done quite a 
>> few migrations from CVS and Subversion to Git now and it's normally 
>> pretty quick.
> 
> Migrating to git is my long-term plan, but unfortunately yes, with 
> things insanely busy at $JOB, it isn't near the top of the list.  The 
> actual conversion I've done in a test capacity and it works well.

It's well worth it, imo.  We migrated Interchange over to git a couple 
of years ago and haven't looked back.  We can certainly still work with 
something like git-cvs and dump unified diffs for you without much hassle.


Peter