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[Fairlight]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 07:23:03PM -0500, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list
thus spoke:
> On 3/10/21 6:40 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>
> > My website has been 'under reconstruction' since I moved it a couple
> > years back, so if you want more information, you'll have to email me
> > privately.  I still sell it; the website is just in pieces as I shift
> > to WordPress, and it's a low, low priority for me.
>
> WordPress?  Two years?

There was a lot to port.  The PayPal integration with IPN was one part I
didn't have time to do.  I might have made time for that...after the
product pages.  I really just haven't had the time/energy to waste
re-formatting the product pages between the old site and the new.

It's not hard.  It's that I don't have time or inclination to make myself
an office temp for 'x' hours, for limited ROI.  The software still exists;
I don't -neeeeed- the web pages to sell it.  It's a small community; if
someone needs it, they know where to find me.

> Well, aside from being a very low low priority, we also understand you
> are a very very busy man.

Very.  That's an understatement.  My time is definitely at a premium now.

> You do know that WordPress is PHP based? I thought you had said you would
> not be caught dead running anything in PHP.  lol

I wouldn't be caught dead -writing- anything in PHP.  I've used WP
on/off for over a decade.  At least they more or less keep up on
security for WP, and CentOS keeps PHP in line.

> I know a couple of guys that will whip that up for you inside a week;
> hence, not too expensive!

I've actually considered hiring someone off Fiverr or something to do it,
and just let me handle the technical IPN re-integration.  It may actually
be done already, but I can't remember.  It needs testing, definitely.

Reality is, I only have so much free time, and I'd rather play with my
synths and guitars than do data entry and formatting for a few or weeks or
whatever, when it's not an absolute necessity.

You'll note that I haven't been running sales in ages.  I haven't needed
to, really.  In fact, I'm ready to -raise- the price on most of my
offerings.  There hasn't been a solid need for me to take a hit in a few
years.  It's sometimes tempting as a method of expediency to get a new
piece of kit, but I haven't been bothering.

I am moving away from Perl, towards Python.  Finally.  I love Perl, but
CPAN and the core are drifting farther apart than I like, and some things
are becoming unmaintainable and unresolvable.  Some modules (like the
main JSON one) are flat-out unsupported past certain core interpreter
versions...if they work at all.  They just toss their hands up and call it
a day.  It's a bad scene, and it's time to break with Perl, slowly phasing
it out of use.

I've considered rewriting a few of the progrms in Python, but don't
feel a need just yet.  The ROI has to be there.  I've updated several
major offerings to the latest Perl and modules as of a few months
back, so there's nothing imperative that I haven't been able to work
around.  If it comes to that, I can always do it later.  The entire
OneGate/RawQuery/OneBridge suite is fully updated.  My SuperQuery is not
only fully updated, but has a batch mode and segmented downloading in a
threaded model.  But I'm seriously drifting away from Perl for future
development beyond maintenance of past packages.  After all this time,
it's being mismanaged into the ground, sadly.

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