[Freerealty] difference between F.R. and O.R.

[Patrick Fleming]

Russell Mann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just joined this list and wanted to see if I could find out about the
> difference(s) between F.R. and O.R.  I've done a lot of work tweaking the
> O.R. code, but a new project has me looking for some fresh code.
> 
> It looks like F.R. branched off of O.R. - is that correct?  What was the
> reason for that, and what can be expected from the F.R. project?  

FR is a fork off OR 2.4(6?, I don't remember). I/we forked due to Jon 
moving onto a different data schema and a bunch of us using the older 
version not wanting to move to the new schema. Most of us using the 
older version have tweaked it to our own preferences as well. Right now, 
we have a stable release that will probably be reworked to allow globals 
to be turned off and use the $_POST, $_GET, etc variables.

Some of the differences between the original forked code and the current 
  FR code are the use of the image tools for creating thumbnails, the 
addition of some contributed mods, including the property features by 
Tom Anderson. Since the fork, OpenRealty has been moved from Jon's site 
to openrealty.org and was under active development the last time I 
checked. We also have stuck with MySQL where OR has moved to database 
abstraction allowing many different types of backends. We are kinda at 
the point of 'if it aint broke, don't fix it'.


>The O.R.
> project seemed to be just one person who didn't develop it very often.  I'd
> be interested in contributing code to a project that is active and could
> eventually rival InteractiveTools product browser.

A little fresh blood never hurt. I think most on the mailing list just 
watch to see if and when I make a post. There is a 'minor' outstanding 
issue regarding the GD code. Depending on your versions of GD and PHP it 
doesn't seem to properly check for the installed version of GD and 
quietly fails to create the thumbnail, instead inserting a full size 
image of the image being uploaded.

Despite some slow development and lack of feature requests I think all 
using this version are happy with the functionality(and if not, they 
should speak up more ;) ). There is still a halfway decent number of 
downloads of the code on a monthly basis... even if it's just to rip 
ideas out of it that's kinda the point of GPL software.

Anyway, have at it... see something you think we need/want throw it out. 
I'm more than happy to add code into the base. I'm sure if you look 
through the history, you will see that I have tried to make it easy to 
migrate from Jon's version to ours trying to include upgrade code.


Patrick

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Russell Mann
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