On 1 Sep 2004, at 15:45, app@... wrote:

> MT 3.1 is out. What do we think? Discuss. ;) <tim/>
> ---

I'm deeply puzzled about the Dynamic Publishing. When I heard about it
I thought "Great! A way to prototype page templates with enormous
amounts of plugins and PerlScripting and stuff, without having to
rebuild 4000++ pages. Ace!"

Note this is not the look and feel - CSS takes care of that - but the
cool plugin features that I've been wanting to try out. That would be
great. But now it's apparent (though little realised, I fear) that you
can't use ANY of the existing plugins. This is just weird: for an
application that sells itself on having a huge development community,
and the hundreds of plugins available for it, having the key feature of
a point release basically throw that development away is just bizarre.

Given that disk space is very cheap indeed, the only other reasoning
behind the Dynamic Publishing is that it speeds up rebuilds. Surely it
would have been time better spent, erm, speeding up the rebuild and so
allowing the DT system to then use the Perl plugins, than rewriting the
whole layer and wiping the slate clean with respect to third-party
support.

I mean, now MT users have been sold on Dynamic Publishing, there's even
more reason for them to move to WordPress - because they will have both
DP *and* a whole load of plugins.

I just don't see the strategic sense of it. Anyone?