[miva] Merchant 5.x vs 4.x from a development perspective?

[virtualkiwi]

Hi folks, this is slightly unmivascriptish, but since some mvgurus are
subscribed to this list, who do Merchant, hopefully I'll get an
intelligent answer.

I have a Merchant 4.x developer licence, that came when I [bought!] the
compiler but I've never bothered to upgrade to 5.x

After years of non-merchant scripting I now have someone who needs a
storefront, and I'm reasonably familiar with Merchant 4.x.

The hosting provider can offer either 4.x or 5.x hosting for the same
price.

Are there any significant advantages or disadvantages in going with one
version or other?

I've beaten the stuffing out of mmui.mv for version 4.x experimenting,
and I can roll my own modules if I need to.

If 5.x is significantly better than 4.x I'm prepared to give it a go,
but if I'm better to stick with the devil I know, (and have a developer
licence for) I'll go 4.x

4.x offers easy offline db manipulation due to the xbase format, but
I'm also aware it's slower than mySQL.
This isn't going to be a huge site, maybe 100 products max, but I do
need to be able to provide fairly streamlined offline and online db
integration with the offline db being a Microsoft Access application.

Thoughts, comments?

[mvmarkus]

Go with v5 and use a MySQL backend (not this silly MivaSQL). It is much
better than v4 and more flexible. You may have to get familiar with this
Store Morph thingy, but that isn't too difficult, as far as I can tell.

Markus

Thoughts, comments?

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