Thank you for your quick response.

I have entered my comments under your
statements.


> > The Amazone home page on the NOC doesn't exist.
> >
> > http://noc.postnuke.com/projects/amazone/
> FALSE I don't know what is your browser problem this
> page is fine and
> display OK on all the computers I tried and you are
> the first one to
> report such a problem

http://noc.postnuke.com/projects/amazone/
contains a link labled "Project Home Page" pointing
to http://amazone.noc.postnuke.com/ This is the page
that I was referring to.

> > The newest file release for either project was
> January 2006
> This is because these files are working with no
> known problem with the
> last PostNuke version. I only release new version
> when I correct a bug,
> add new functionality or rewrite a module.

OK - That makes sense.

> > and neither site has active/current forums or bug
> reports.
> >
> FALSE see
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=46980 and
> http://noc.postnuke.com/tracker/?group_id=263 you
> will see that I answer
> reports when i have a solution.
> If a bug/feature request has no answer from me this
> is because I
> currently have no answer !!

It is difficult to know why a question remains
unanswered. However, I posted a question
in the Amazone forums back in March, about the
home page, and did not receive a response.
http://noc.postnuke.com/forum/forum.php?forum_id=929

> > Questions:
> >
> > [1] My understanding is that Amazone is taking the
> place of
> > pn-mod-books. Is that true?
> >
> No these 2 module serve totally different purposes
> and AmaZone don't
> replace books.
> - in books you can advertise products from other
> stores than Amazon (for
> instance Barne&Noble, ...) and from differents
> amazon websites (for
> instance amazon.com and amazon.fr) at the same time
> - in books amazon websevice are only used at item
> creation but all data
> for and item come from the PostNuke database. Amazon
> is not used at all
> when a visitor display the details of an item.
> - in AmaZone you can only advertise products coming
> from one Amazone
> webstore
> - all details for an item come from the Amazon
> webservices. they are
> cached but if the cache is too old a new query to
> Amazon is done
> It's up to you to decide which module is good for
> you

Thank you for this, very clear statement, on the
differences between the two modules. I will,
based on this, stick with pn-mod-books.

> > [2] If Amazone is replacing pn-mod-books, how hard
> is it to
> > migrate a working pn-mod-books dataset?
> No migration is possible because the tables are too
> differents

Understood... as their purpose is different,
that makes perfect sense.


> >
> > [3] How close are we to a safe version for use
> with PN 7.6.2?
> Both AmaZone and books current versions are working
> well with PostNuke
> .762 you can download books current version (version
> 750 RC4) here
>
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46980
> and AmaZone
> current version (version 1.1)here :
> http://noc.postnuke.com/frs/?group_id=263

I am running RC4. My concern was the use of
the RC designation. Release Candidate implies
that the program is still being tested...


> Please next time before posting a lot of inexact
> statements can you do a
> little search before. Thanks.
> Jean-Michel Védrine

I did try searching the Postnuke forums.
Unfortunately, since they switch to pnforum,
I have found the search function to be
worthless.

Again, thank you for responding so quickly
and I apologize if I have offended in any way.

Sakshale


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