<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Sep 26, 2006, at 9:22 PM, Kathryn Andersen wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">5) instructions to edit core files (run away, run away!)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I think I caught one of those recently and moved the instruction to adding a line to config.php. Are there really many of those? if so they should be squished and squished mightily.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Nearly every "contribution" to oscommerce *R*E*Q*U*I*R*E*S* hacking the core distro. THAT is a run-away program.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Zen Cart, while oscommerce-based, has turned out better. Better is qualified though -- the admin panels are a mess and no one with an eye for UI design has looked at them. Ever.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So I've recently fixed one such problem somewhere in PmWiki (where escapes my mind) and confronted that issue dead-on in another application and nearly finished my project before bailing and opting for another program...effectively doubling my work on a paid project. Yay.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Crisses</DIV></BODY></HTML>