On Jan 19, 1:29 pm, Wyatt Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 19, 9:20 am, Colin Flanagan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The SQLAlchemy argument is a very compelling one. I have an application > > that, while being a CMS, has heavily relational data. I was urged by > > different people to do it either in Django or Plone, but went with Pylons. > > My domain objects are far easier to work with, though I did suffer from the > > authentication layer and a few other things I had to build from scratch. > > > Django can use SQLAlchemy, but by doing so you pretty much nullify a lot of > > the things that are unique to that framework like their "automatic admin > > interfaces." Django's object generation came nowhere near understanding > > my moderately-complicated data model and would have been much more > > difficult to develop with, as compared to Pylons with SQLAlchemy. > > > On another note: > > I find it interesting that a lot of people recommend Django for CMS-type > > applications. I would think that Plone might be more far more suitable > > given that: > > 1. your data fits well with the hierarchical structure of the ZODB > > 2. your content is comparable to the content types already established in > > Plone > > 3. you don't have any legacy data or need to integrate with other systems > > 4. you don't need to do lots of custom UI/presentation layer work > > I'm no Plone expert, but I don't think #4 is a problem for Plone. I > think there are actually quite a few Plone sites with custom UIs (my > company's new Intranet being one of them). > > And just to add another voice to this SQLAlchemy hurrah, like Colin, > I'm also doing (complex) GIS stuff with PostGIS (& Shapely & GeoJSON & > PyProj). Having a bit of experience with both Django and Rails, I > don't know how I'd accomplish with their ORMs what I can with SA. I'm > not saying it's not possible, but it seems nowhere near as > straightforward or flexible.
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