On 1 August 2012 23:27, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Gora Mohanty <g...@mimirtech.com> wrote: >> On 1 August 2012 20:18, Deepak Garg <deepakgarg.i...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Diaspora is AGPL (version 3), some parts dual-licensed under MIT License >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(software) >> >> Erm, you are the second person to suggest that, but Diaspora >> is RoR. A better bet might be Pinax ( http://pinaxproject.com/ ) >> if one wants to stick to Python. > > -1 > > I don't think we should be so religious about using Python. After all > programming languages are tools to get job done.
Er, I am not. But, there could well be a good reason for someone to want to do that in Python. Since they are asking on a Python group, a reasonable assumption is that they have done their homework and want a Python solution. > Remember that Diaspora was developed by a bunch of very smart chaps > over couple of years and it was able to raise $200K of funds on > kickstarter. It would take equal amount of efforts (or even more) and > resources to start building something from scratch again. > > Rejecting an already available opensource project, even before > considering its merits, just because it is not written in your > favorite programming language is not a good idea. Have not looked at Diaspora, and it could well be quite good. RoR is also perfectly fine for a RAD framework. I am not sure how it came across that I was rejecting Diaspora out of hand? Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
