On 7/18/07, Paulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No to mention a good blog app that people can standardize on would be > a nice alternative to Wordpress[1] and Simplelog[2]. Having one would > definitely be helpful in the "spreading the word about Django" > department.
I'm not entirely disinterested since I've been working on rewriting my own blogging application to be released open source, but... I think part of the reason that there isn't a "standard" blog application built on Django is simply the fact that it's so easy -- it's quite literally a couple dozen lines of code to get a simple blog application. A model for entries and a URLConf which routes to generic views are all the Python you need to write, and then the generic views and bundled applications in django.conrtrib -- admin, auth and comments -- will do the rest. And if you want something more, it's generally easier to be writing your own custom code from the start so you can tailor things exactly how you want them. Rails doesn't offer those sorts of components (from what I know of the development team's choices, it's largely a philosophical matter, much as we don't offer tight integration of a JavaScript toolkit), which means that it's easier and more efficient for Rails users to standardize on and contribute code to a single application which can implement all the necessary bits. So I'm not necessarily convinced that there's a great need for a "standard" Django blog application; it would appease some folks, but I have a feeling that in the Django world a lot of people really would be happier, in the long run, writing their own app that does what they need (trying to encourage that is one reason why I keep spinning off bits of code from my blog into standalone applications -- when I do eventually finish my rewrite and release everything, I'd like people to be able to pick and choose the bits they want). -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
