Planet or Venus

[Sam Ruby]

Note: I scanned both my inbox and spam folder, and don't see either of 
the emails that Dieter mentioned...  Weird.

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Dieter Zinke">
> 
>> What are the differences between
>>
>> http://intertwingly.net/code/planet/
>>
>> AND
>>
>> http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/ which includes
>> http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/planet/ planet?
>>
>> I can' t see significant differences/advantages.
> 
> Probably not a lot, as Venus is a branch of Planet, so Sam's public branches
> have that history. (The planet/ subdirectory is a module within the source.)

Minor technical detail: both Venus and Planet 2.0 have their main logic 
in module named "planet".

> That said, the Planet 2.0 and the Venus branch *are* quite different.
> 
>> I am asking you this as a user. Maybe there is some sort of information
>> page somewhere for non-developers, but i couldn' t locate that page.
> 
> This is my fault -- the Planet web page hasn't been updated for a long time.
> I really have to get a wiki on there soon. :-)

It's not *all* your fault. :-)

I certainly have plenty of places where I could place propaganda, but in 
general, that's not in my nature.

But if I did, it would look something like this: other than 
documentation, test suites, being actively maintained, and additional 
functionality like themes, additional templating languages, bill of 
materials (for easy installation/setup), filters, and cache maintenance 
operations; Venus differs from Planet 2.0 in that can be configured to 
fetch feeds on separate threads for increased performance, and generally 
consumes significantly less memory.

More seriously, if you have an existing planet that works for you, there 
probably is little reason to upgrade.  If you are starting a new planet, 
you probably want to pick Venus.  If for some reason, you are running 
Planet and find you want to upgrade to Venus, there isn't all that much 
you have to worry about:

http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/docs/migration.html

> - Jeff

- Sam Ruby