I wandered across a site today that sure looks a lot like drupal called scoop does anyone know if they are using some of the same code? http://sourceforge.net/projects/scoop You can see a live site at http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/main

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g33k4hr’s picture

Scoop appears to be written almost entirely in Perl. Drupal on the other hand is written in php. This difference alone makes it very difficult that they could share the same code base, although I am sure that they have parents somewhere, even if only in concept.

matteo’s picture

code is written in perl, and product does not seem so similar...

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CodeMonkeyX’s picture

Personally scoop does not look that similar from first glance. But in the future you are going to see many systems based on Drupal. This design is pretty unique, and Drupal is proving that the design can work.

So you can expect to see simular projects in the future. There may only be a problem if the other project uses Drupal code, and does not release their changes.

Steven’s picture

It's the engine behind Kuro5hin.org, a techie newsportal. Scoop existed before Drupal, and Drupal is of course inspired by many of its predecessors.

Being written in Perl rather than PHP, Scoop shares no code whatsoever with Drupal of course, so any similarities are conceptual and not literal. But Scoop is a good product, so you'll see many similar things in both.

kbahey’s picture

Scoop is no longer maintained, and that was the main reason someone on the forums moved from Scoop to Drupal, and even wrote some scripts to migrate the data from there to here.

Do a search on scoop and you will get the article in details.

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g33k4hr’s picture

With 44 checkins into their cvs repository in the month of October, already, it is difficult to believe that it is no longer maintained.
G33k4hr

kbahey’s picture

My comment was based on a posting by a Scoop user.

Here is his post on the Drupal forums.

And here are the
details.

Where he says "The site ran on scoop, a content management system that is no longer being updated."

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