On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 18:55 -0700, Mike Orr wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Iain Duncan<[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Perhaps Pylons' greatest asset is influence rather than popularity. > >> It's gaining respect and market share among those who know a lot about > >> Python frameworks. (There's a selling point for newbies.) It may > >> become the "central" framework in the way Debian has become central > >> among Linux distributors. It may not be the most popular, but it's > >> central because it's vendor neutral (doesn't favor one company over > >> another the way RedHat or Fedora do), and forms a reference > >> implementation. Pylons' use of Paste, Beaker, Routes, etc, validate > >> those libraries and has encouraged other frameworks to adopt them. > >> Pylons' smallness makes it nimble. We can use ToscaWidgets without > >> being tied down to it. We can take our time evaluating AuthKit vs > >> repoze.who/what. We can become the first adopter of whatever future > >> library may appear, and prove its (un)usefulness to the wider > >> Python-web world. Other frameworks reject Pylons' design decisions, > >> but they keep looking at Pylons for ideas, to see what works. So > >> Pylons has an influence much wider than its userbase. > > > > IMHO, the above is exactly the kind of thing we should have more of on > > the Pylons website for marketing! A realistic analysis of where Pylons > > shines and how it has or has not been important. > > This is where you as a marketer come in. I would not have been able > to articulate this without you leading the discussion and making me > realize it.
Thanks Mike, I really appreciate your saying so. Now that it seems people are paying a bit more attention to these issues ( or at least demonstrating that they are! ), I will make an effort to follow this more closely again and try to contribute more. Iain --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
