[Zope] Flux 0.1.0 released (about workflow)

[Juan David Ibáñez Palomar]

Hi all,

Flux 0.1.0 has been released.

It's yet another tool to solve your workflow problems.

What makes it different of the other alternatives (MetaFlow,
OpenFlow and DCWorkflow)?

First, it's not a Zope product, it's a Python module, packaged
and distributed with distutils. This means that it can be used
without Zope; when used with Zope, it has to be used from a
Python product; it don't provides a web interface to define the
workflow. This is a tool for developers.

With less than 200 lines of code it's the simplest workflow
solution. The workflow is defined as a graph (like MetaFlow
and DCWorkflow do), so it's easy to understand. However, it
don't has the constrains of DCWorkflow because Flux don't
provides any application semantics (it don't tries to guess
what you need, you tell it what you need).

MetaFlow, until now the product with the best approach to the
problem for my taste has inspired Flux. MetaFlow is a Zope
product that includes a Python package (MetaFlow.Workflow) which
is as simple as DCWorkflow and as powerful as OpenFlow (at least
it has the potential to be). It also provides a web interface
through the management screens, unfortunately this interface
repeats the mistakes of DCWorkflow (probably this has stopped
many users to use it).

Unfortunately I couldn't take MetaFlow.Workflow because it also
makes some mistakes, like to copy the DCWorkflow API, which is
not very good.

So here is Flux, the best available tool for developers (if you
aren't a developer forget it).

Download Flux from:

  http://sf.net/projects/lleu


Regards,

-- 
J. David Ibáñez, http://www.j-david.net
Software Engineer / Ingénieur Logiciel / Ingeniero de Software