Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Thomas G. Willis
Being a pylons newb myself, the first thing I did was write auth and registration. It took a day.Granted I wasn't trying to support every auth method I could think of like authkit does,but I learned lots.If you want auth (and other things) rolled in use use turbogears. But getting basic

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Colin Flanagan
-discuss pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 11:17:23 AM Subject: Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details That's it.. that's the reason to use Pylons: SQLAlchemy. If you need to actually use a database correctly (which I'm guessing that you do), then you need to use

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Noah Gift
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Jonathan Vanasco jonat...@findmeon.com wrote: Django is like Rails -- it forces you into building certain types of apps with certain styles. If you build a Django app , you're pretty much married to it -- and can expect it to work much like other apps.

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm curious if Django's CMS reputation comes from the fact that it's used by a lot of newspapers and content providers, or if there really is something that makes it advantageous over other frameworks. Django's

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Wyatt Baldwin
On Jan 19, 9:20 am, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: The SQLAlchemy argument is a very compelling one.  I have an application that, while being a CMS, has heavily relational data.  I was urged by different people to do it either in Django or Plone, but went with Pylons. My

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Wyatt Baldwin
On Jan 19, 1:29 pm, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 19, 9:20 am, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: The SQLAlchemy argument is a very compelling one.  I have an application that, while being a CMS, has heavily relational data.  I was urged by different

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Wyatt Baldwin
On Jan 19, 12:26 pm, Noah Gift noah.g...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Jonathan Vanasco jonat...@findmeon.com wrote: Django is like Rails -- it forces you into building certain types of apps with certain styles. If you build a Django app , you're pretty much married

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Eric Lemoine
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 19, 9:20 am, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: The SQLAlchemy argument is a very compelling one. I have an application that, while being a CMS, has heavily relational data. I was urged by

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Noah Gift
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 19, 12:26 pm, Noah Gift noah.g...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Jonathan Vanasco jonat...@findmeon.com wrote: Django is like Rails -- it forces you into building certain types of

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Lawrence Oluyede l.oluy...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm curious if Django's CMS reputation comes from the fact that it's used by a lot of newspapers and content providers, or if there really

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Mike Orr
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 19, 9:20 am, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: The SQLAlchemy argument is a very compelling one. I have an application that, while being a CMS, has heavily relational data. I was urged by

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Mike Orr sluggos...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 19, 9:20 am, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: The SQLAlchemy argument is a very compelling one. I have an application

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Noah Gift
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Jorge Vargas jorge.var...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Mike Orr sluggos...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 19, 9:20 am, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Colin Flanagan quadvill...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Jorge Vargas jorge.var...@gmail.com To: pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 4:45:35 PM Subject: Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details On Mon

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2009-01-19 Thread Chris Miles
On 20/01/2009, at 3:30 AM, Thomas G. Willis wrote: Being a pylons newb myself, the first thing I did was write auth and registration. It took a day.Granted I wasn't trying to support every auth method I could think of like authkit does,but I learned lots.If you want auth (and other things)

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-14 Thread Iain Duncan
I don't use FormEncode. It is based on a very common design mistake made by a lot of programmers, who think one can better generate html from code. I think you are maybe mixing up Formencode and some projects that use formencode. Formencode's core is for validating and converting to and

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-14 Thread Iain Duncan
Cropr's point seems to be that programmers should not design forms because graphic designers do a much better job. That is true only if a complex visual design for the form page is paramount. In most cases the complex design occurs on the home page and content pages, and the form is

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-09 Thread cropr
I choose Pylons and not Django for 2 specific reasons - Mako SQLAlchemy are far superior than the templating engine and ORM of Django. - Pylons is full WSGi from the ground up. It Django WSGI smells like Object Orientation is pasted into Perl One item I really liked about Django that is not

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-09 Thread Noah Gift
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously cropr wrote: I don't use FormEncode. It is based on a very common design mistake made by a lot of programmers, who think one can better generate html from code. When a graphical artist designs the

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-09 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously cropr wrote: I don't use FormEncode. It is based on a very common design mistake made by a lot of programmers, who think one can better generate html from code. When a graphical artist designs the layout of a web page, he uses tools who speak html, css and javascript, but no

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-09 Thread Ian Bicking
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously cropr wrote: I don't use FormEncode. It is based on a very common design mistake made by a lot of programmers, who think one can better generate html from code. When a graphical artist designs the layout of a web page, he uses tools who speak html, css

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-09 Thread Mike Orr
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Noah Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously cropr wrote: I don't use FormEncode. It is based on a very common design mistake made by a lot of programmers, who think one can

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Krishgy
If your questions needs to be answered quickly, Django may be right choice. I think, you could have known why not to use PHP when you ask question on Django vs Pylons :-) . I NEVER worked on Python at jobs. I wanted to create a website. I have chosen Pylons over Django due to its customization

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Jorge Vargas
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Krishgy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your questions needs to be answered quickly, Django may be right choice. I think, you could have known why not to use PHP when you ask question on Django vs Pylons :-) . I NEVER worked on Python at jobs. I wanted to create

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Alex Marandon
2008/12/6 zunzun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seems like I should use Django? Or should it be Pylons instead? Here is the advice of an average programmer with no emotional involvement in any of these projects. I think it depends on your background. The Pylons ecosystem is very powerful but it's quite

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Alex Marandon wrote: 2008/12/6 zunzun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seems like I should use Django? Or should it be Pylons instead? Here is the advice of an average programmer with no emotional involvement in any of these projects. I think it depends on your background. The Pylons

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Jose Galvez
Alex Marandon wrote: 2008/12/6 zunzun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seems like I should use Django? Or should it be Pylons instead? Here is the advice of an average programmer with no emotional involvement in any of these projects. I think it depends on your background. The Pylons

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Ian Bicking wrote: Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Alex Marandon wrote: 2008/12/6 zunzun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seems like I should use Django? Or should it be Pylons instead? Here is the advice of an average programmer with no emotional involvement in any of these

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Ian Bicking
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Alex Marandon wrote: 2008/12/6 zunzun [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seems like I should use Django? Or should it be Pylons instead? Here is the advice of an average programmer with no emotional involvement in any of these projects. I think it depends on your

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Orr
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Jorge Vargas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Krishgy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your questions needs to be answered quickly, Django may be right choice. I think, you could have known why not to use PHP when you ask question on Django

Re: Django or Pylons - comparison details

2008-12-06 Thread Mike Orr
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Ben Bangert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 6, 2008, at 9:31 AM, zunzun wrote: Comparison before starting a project, used to decide which framework to use. Django: according to http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/about Members 12,016 Group Activity