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Normally not being one to dig up old grudges, but the fact of the matter is that eXoops is a XOOPS1 fork by Half-Dead, who didn't agree on the devs descision to go with Smarty. His disagreement led him to take the CVS code (which is ok), and started his own fork (which is also ok, albeit he didn't do it in a friendly fashion). The grudge the devs hold over e-Xoops is that Half-Dead removed the credits and copyrights of the CVS code, and with little to no adjustments released it as his own... That, by any standard, is plain rude and illegal as well, since the code was released under the GNU-GPL licence.
This was a looong time ago, and XOOPS has moved on, since. The fact remains that a lot of confusion is created by the name eXoops, and the main differences. Personally, I support XOOPS and think that eXOOPS has been left behind when we moved to smarty. But please jedge yourself
Herko