Pylons is a very nice framework and new features are very good like Mako. But Pylons has one problem - "what in the nine hells is Pylons ?" - It isn't too popular, which is bad, very bad ;) I have my sites written in Django and if I used Pylons I most likely would not find any "free" hosting for it (FOSS sites) and I probably would had more problems with coding this or that...
1. Hosting possibilities - not to many... --------------------------------------------- Why not mail various hosting companies that theoretically support Pylons (like they give ssh+server+mod_python/scgi/fcgi or support django, TG) and ask them would they want to cooperate. We (Pylons Project) check if they can host Pylons apps, if not - what needs to be fixed. Pylons team writes a howto and can make a basic support - the hosting company adds Pylons to its hosting features etc. maybe support the project in some way. Also free hosting (or free for Pylons/FOSS web sites) is a must ;) More hosts on the list the better. 2. Documentation -------------------------------------------- More docs and in a more friendly layout. In Django to start working with databases user needs to check two pages - "Creating models", "The database API " which explain in a nice way how to use that part of the framework. For this example a Pylons only SQLAlchemy tutorial would be required (how to add,edit,delete,search, how to make complex queries, how to create models). The docs layout could be like django/djangoo book - explain one feature at a time, no SQLAlchemy + Myghty + Helpers + FooSomething at once. Lolish examples with print's are very good for learning. Move tips from mailing list to the site. 3. Promotion ------------------------------------------- Django writes a book, Django on PyCon, everyone talks about Django ;) There is a lot of small and bigger Django apps (Check google code). Pylons can also use some more aggressive promotion - if someone wants to make a CMS app and ask about it on the mailing lists - no Zope but "use Pylons"... Blog about Pylons, new tutorials, new events (like new hosting company etc.) put them on aggregates like python planet. Try to digg them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" 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/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
