The roadmap is a great step forward, thank you. I am, however, disappointed at seeing "Support for a new runtime language" on the roadmap for the immediate feature.
Quite bluntly, I would have expected better triage. There are showstopping issues in Google App Engine at the moment. Applications that require reporting, or any sort of maintenance features/long-running processes have to implement quite ridiculous client-side hacks. My app has webbasedcron hitting a URL every minute to run its email queue. If I want to email everyone, I run my admin routine which uses Ajax calls to iterate over the several thousand members. When I send an email from my app I have no idea what happens to it (and we had such a hard time because said email was ending up in users' spam folders. Google App Engine is missing an entire mode of operation that is required for web apps. It handles lots of tiny request/response transactions well but you also need to be able to run reporting and maintenance. Long-running processes that *do not need to scale* but are nonetheless essential. I don't care that I will soon be able to create such hacks in another language. I'd like those issues addressed first before time and effort is expanded on a feature that is purely one of preference. As I mentioned in a recent post, adding support for other languages to Google App Engine today is like sewing a new set of drapes for a house that doesn't have any walls yet. I'd rather have the walls instead of a "nice to have" vanity feature. Thanks, Aral On Oct 24, 2:11 am, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Support for a new runtime language > > Would you be able to say how different languages will be partitioned? > Could you access a single datastore with more than one language or > have different languages running on the same VM? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
