On Jan 18, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > I think we need to clear up some misconceptions here. [...] > Pinax, on the other hand, works at a higher level. Pinax targets a > specific domain -- social web apps
Actually, this is a major misconception. Pinax is not targeting a specific domain. And in fact, the social features are probably those features of Pinax least production-ready. Sites like eldarion.com, us.pycon.org, pinaxproject.com, gondor.io and quisition.com are all examples of Pinax that have nothing particularly "social" about them. > So - you really don't have to make a "Pinax or Django" decision. Any > app that can be installed in a Django site can also be installed in a > Pinax site, and every Pinax site is a Django site. Exactly. > As for the original question -- are there any drawbacks? Well, not > really. Pinax suggests a particular collection of apps, but you can > use any other app you want in parallel. Pinax mandates a few standards > for project layout and the like, but for the most part, they're just > using the best practices commonly understood by experienced members of > the Django community, but the Django project itself hasn't gone to the > trouble of formalizing. Yep. And it's important to note you can use Pinax *just* for this. The zero_project is appropriate for almost any kind of django site and, for the most common type of account management, account_project is a good starting point. > About the only potential downside I can see is that If you're not > building something in Pinax's sweet spot -- i.e., a social web site -- > you won't get all the benefits that Pinax has to offer. If you're > building something *really* different, you might find that Pinax's > conventions obstruct you in ways that a raw Django install wouldn't. > However, for most "websitey" websites, this won't be an issue -- > Pinax's conventions are, for the most part, a bunch of practices that > you should probably be following anyway -- Pinax just forces/provides > the tools to help you to follow them :-) The social stuff is in many ways Pinax's current weakness. It's the social stuff that hasn't been updated for our next release yet (although we're working towards it) I was planning on doing this anyway, but this thread has encouraged me even more than I need to write some blog posts about things like Pinax's zero_project, static_project and account_project in the coming weeks. James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
