Hey Graham, I would say yes to both. Mezzanine gives a lot of features out of the box that make developer and website administrator lives easier and doesn't prevent you from doing anything that you could normally do with Django. In some ways you could think of it as a super set of Django. At this point in my development career, when I'm working on a Django site I default to starting with Mezzanine and would need a compelling reason not to, rather than the other way around.
I'm incredibly biased in favor of Mezzanine so take that all with a grain of salt ;) On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at that list it would seem to be a 'no-brainer' for many clients > to choose it over straight Django? > For a significant numbers of sites the development *cost* and *time* will > be lower using Mezzanine over Django? > g > > > On 13/04/15 14:57, Stephen McDonald wrote: > > I think that statement doesn't refer to any specific example, but instead > it refers to Mezzanine as a whole. > > It makes the most sense when you think about the task a developer has at > hand when they first set out to build a content managed website with > Django. Django gives you all the plumbing to build this, but gives you > nothing actually built out of the box in terms of website features, > therefore inherently being entirely unopinionated. > > With Mezzanine you actually have a lot of the functionality built from > the start that websites need (and in some cases, *all* the features needed) > - navigation structure, blog, forms, accounts, galleries, file management, > etc (those are your examples if you really want them). > > Everything it provides is an opinion on how these things should be built > *in the context of Django*. The developer building a content managed > website with Django no longer needs to make a decision on whether they > should source these components from libraries or build them themselves, and > often painfully, how they'll all glue together - this is all done for you, > inherently in an opinionated way. > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Graham <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello everyone >> I am going to talk about Mezzanine to the Python User Group here in >> Auckland (New Zealand) and I have been preparing my slides by looking at >> Stephen's PyCon APAC talk in Taiwan. >> >> http://blog.jupo.org/2014/08/21/pycon-apac-keynote-mezzanine/ >> >> In it he says 'Mezzanine is opinionated - it makes choices for you' 52 >> mins and 37 secs in >> >> Does anyone have an example of that? >> >> TIA >> Graham >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Mezzanine Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Stephen McDonald > http://jupo.org > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Mezzanine Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Mezzanine Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
