[Web4lib] RE: Open source support models

[Dan Scott]

2008/7/12 Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com>:
> Thanks for the correction on Evergreen.
>
> I wouldn't say I needed correcting on VuFind, though. Saying that
> VuFind isn't mostly PHP because there are chunks of shell scripting
> and HTML is like saying that a car isn't made out of steel and glass
> because it also has leather seats and pockets of air. Much the same is
> true of SQL and, depending on what you're doing with it, JavaScript.
> And if you're going to count lines HTML against lines of code, you
> should also factor in all the GIF and JPEG images, not to mention
> Cascading Style Sheets. This way lies madness.

Oh, I absolutely agree with you on VUFind! I was actually pointing at
the Ohloh site to show that it confirms your statement. I apologize
that I wasn't
more explicit about that.

-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University