[KLUG Members] CMS Systems

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I'm afriad that here, I can only respond in the negative.

Negative responses are as valuable as positive ones, and probably more
abundant. :)

> The company I work for uses webgui (www.plainblack.com/webgui) for
> content management; and all I can say is that "It's the most horrible
> thing since anything"
> It fills some of your requirements: external authentication (we use
> ldap), extendability (you can add your own new modules), it's written in
> perl,and works with linux/mod_perl/apache.
> It's problems:
> 1. It's piss slow.
> 2. The mysql database is a mess
> 3. The way it stores data on disk is horrible
> 4. Upgrades happen way too frequently, and are difficult to perform (and
> are risky), and very often the phrase" complete rewrite" exists and
> things get abandoned.

Ah, the dreaded "complete rewrite",  

> 5. The code is sloppy
> 6.  It doesn't scale, no matter how much it says it does.
> 7. In order to be properly "supported" by plainblack, you need to adhere
> to PlainBlack's totally nonstandard, totally hairbrained filesystem
> hierarchy (which adheres to no standards)
> So, there you go. Avoid webgui. 

Gotcha.