Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-31 Thread Lengani Kaunda
Really interesting thoughts. Thanks everyone, I'll be adding these ideas and resources to the wiki shortly as suggested. Regards, Lengani --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups pylons-discuss group. To

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-24 Thread Randy Syring
On Mar 23, 12:24 pm, Olivier Lauzanne olivier.lauza...@ingeniweb.com wrote: I think the main problem is extensibility. I agree, which is why I developed pysmvt and pysapp: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysapp http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysmvt The idea is that pysmvt is a framework similar

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-24 Thread Isaac
I know almost nothing about it, but there is a plugin style CMS called Tortuga that is supposedly being worked on (used to be called Pagoda). But it's been dormant for a while... may be worth a look... http://code.google.com/p/tortugacms/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-23 Thread Raoul Snyman
2009/3/22 AD.: On Mar 22, 10:29 pm, Raoul Snyman raoul.sny...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with askel. I use Drupal as my CMS for sites that I work on. It may be PHP, but it's extremely powerful and extensible. Besides, if you wanted something as powerful and extensible as Drupal, you'd probably

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-23 Thread cropr
hi, I am writing a very small CMS in Pylons. you can see it live at http://decrop.net or at http://www.kosk.be. The first one is in 3 languages (Dutch, French and German) the latter is only in Dutch. Currently I am cleaning up my code. By the end of April I will release the source code for

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-23 Thread Raoul Snyman
2009/3/23 Dalius Dobravolskas dal...@sandbox.lt: Raoul Snyman wrote: My point is not that you can't write a CMS in Pylons, nor that Pylons is limited. My point is that if you want to write a Drupal in Python, I don't think you're going to be able to do it in Pylons. They just work totally

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-23 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
on ArtWeLove.com : everything under /news is MovableType everything else is Pylons SqlAlchemy + Views in Postgres made it ridiculously easy to make MovableType content available to Pylons... and vice versa. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-23 Thread Wyatt Baldwin
On Mar 23, 10:49 am, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 23, 9:24 am, Olivier Lauzanne olivier.lauza...@ingeniweb.com wrote: 2009/3/23 Dalius Dobravolskas dal...@sandbox.lt Raoul Snyman wrote: My point is not that you can't write a CMS in Pylons, nor that Pylons

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-23 Thread Raoul Snyman
2009/3/23 Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com: And I should mention that this is what Drupal has done with their module system. I'm not convinced yet that it's impossible or even particularly hard to do something functionally equivalent with Pylons, Django, etc. I can see doing what

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-23 Thread askel
It all depends on how much of CMS you need in your app. It could be as simple as Wiki Pylons tutorial which I believe is classical (yet rudimentary) CMS. My point is that Pylons is possible but not best bet as long as CMS is concerned. On Mar 20, 1:04 pm, lengani leng...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-23 Thread AD.
On Mar 24, 6:49 am, Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com wrote: This isn't a question about Pylons in particular. This is a question about Python in general. The answer would be to create some kind of plug-in architecture. Yep The question isn't so much about making a clone of Drupal

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-23 Thread Wyatt Baldwin
On Mar 23, 12:42 pm, Raoul Snyman raoul.sny...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/23 Wyatt Baldwin wyatt.lee.bald...@gmail.com: And I should mention that this is what Drupal has done with their module system. I'm not convinced yet that it's impossible or even particularly hard to do something

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-23 Thread Wyatt Baldwin
On Mar 23, 1:02 pm, askel dummy...@mail.ru wrote: It all depends on how much of CMS you need in your app. It could be as simple as Wiki Pylons tutorial which I believe is classical (yet rudimentary) CMS. My point is that Pylons is possible but not best bet as long as CMS is concerned. I'd

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-22 Thread Raoul Snyman
2009/3/21 askel: If you need CMS why not use what was specifically designed that way? I believe people who seek out-of-box CMS should not look at Pylons because they dont need its power of not being a CMS. I agree with askel. I use Drupal as my CMS for sites that I work on. It may be PHP, but

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-22 Thread AD.
On Mar 22, 10:29 pm, Raoul Snyman raoul.sny...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with askel. I use Drupal as my CMS for sites that I work on. It may be PHP, but it's extremely powerful and extensible. Besides, if you wanted something as powerful and extensible as Drupal, you'd probably want to write

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-22 Thread Mike Orr
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Raoul Snyman raoul.sny...@gmail.com wrote: You want a CMS? Use Drupal. You want to develop a web application? Use Pylons. Except that some applications may need a drop-in CMS for a section of the application. You can supposedly embed Plone as a WSGI

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Mike Orr wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Raoul Snyman raoul.sny...@gmail.com wrote: You want a CMS? Use Drupal. You want to develop a web application? Use Pylons. Except that some applications may need a drop-in CMS for a section of the application. You can

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-22 Thread Wyatt Baldwin
On Mar 22, 2:29 am, Raoul Snyman raoul.sny...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/21 askel: If you need CMS why not use what was specifically designed that way? I believe people who seek out-of-box CMS should not look at Pylons because they dont need its power of not being a CMS. I agree with

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-21 Thread askel
On Mar 20, 1:04 pm, lengani leng...@gmail.com wrote: What sort of CMS/CMF do you secretly hope to be built on top of Pylons? If you need CMS why not use what was specifically designed that way? I believe people who seek out-of-box CMS should not look at Pylons because they dont need its power

Re: CMS/CMF on top of Pylons

2009-03-20 Thread Isaac
Hi Lengani, Have you seen this? http://code.google.com/p/tortugacms/ I don't know much about it other than that they've been working on it for a long time and it sounds like it will be quite nice if/when they reach a stable release. I believe it goes on top of TG2, so maybe it can play nice