On Dec 6, 2008, at 9:31 AM, zunzun wrote:
Comparison before starting a project, used to decide which framework to use. Django: according to http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/about Members 12,016 Group Activity is High Pylons: according to http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/about Members: 1,748 Group Activity is Low
Really? That's how you decide? Then I believe you *must* choose PHP. It completely dwarfs Django and Python altogether, its the only choice really if you want to determine framework based on user-base (popularity). :)
Also, Django just made a major release. The last (non-security fix) Pylons release is over a year old. Guido van Rossum has blessed Django here: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2006/aug/07/guidointerview/
Before that release, they hadn't made a release in almost 2 years, and actually told everyone to run production websites on the development branch... Pylons 0.9.7 RC4 came out about 2 weeks ago. Guido is not a veteran web developer, nor does he actually use any of Django beyond Django templates, his apps have been generally built with pure WSGI and Django templates, the recent port of his Mondrian to a Django app was prolly his first actual Django project.
Seems like I should use Django? Or should it be Pylons instead? Is a long-planned major release immediately forthcoming?
What kind of app/site are you building? What tools matter to you? Do you think you'll need to scale heavily? Are you talking to a legacy database? etc.
Those questions are the ones you should be asking yourself, then seeing which framework has the tools you need to accomplish your task. Otherwise, merely posting some mail list numbers and that Guido likes Django seems to be awfully trollish as it doesn't seem to be a serious attempt to evaluate the frameworks benefits for the task you're actually trying to complete.
I'd highly suggest searching the mail list for some previous threads on the subject, as this doesn't really need rehashing again.
http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Apylons+django+pylons Cheers, Ben
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