I think Mike addressed most everything, and as he said it's not that nobody has thought of your suggestions or if they would be good ideas, it's that they all require time and energy.
1) Hosting - at this point one can generally run pylons anywhere that supports django or turbogears or in many cases rails (if they have fastcgi support in addition to mongrel). If you think back a bit, *nobody* supported Rails when it was first released, and probably few ISPs even had a recent Ruby install before Rails-users (authors) basically started a whole new ISP to kickstart it -- Textdrive(Joyent). As for overall availability, PHP still kicks everyone's butt. I don't think free hosting is worth anyone worrying about. 2) Docs -- the bane of most every project, free or non-free. Made more complicated by the usage of separate libraries -- which are not going to all be folded into Pylons -- so the ongoing problem is tying the docs together without reproducing them everywhere (and the maintainablity problems of that). All of the SQLAlchemy docs are not going to be reproduced on the Pylons site. Same for any of the templating choices. While certainly there could be (and will eventually be) more examples of co-usage of the libs, the docs will always be more spread out than in "everything in one box" frameworks like django or rails. 3) Promotion -- aggressive promotion brings its own issues, both good and bad. Pylons and django I think have pretty different outlooks on things so comparing their promotion efforts isn't all that helpful. So, Pylons is still a young chap (and python web programming is still very volatile), working its way up in the world. More than a few people have come to it after running into limits in other frameworks, so I think that will increasingly be an area of growth/attractiveness. Right now people mostly probably seek out Pylons (even if they don't know that's what they're looking for, they recognize it when they find it), maybe in the future it will be in plain view of everyone. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
