Hello!

I've been developing in PHP ever since PHP 3. I've recently
"discovered" Python and Pylons (read: started playing with it more
seriously). I like the framework very much, and would like to switch
completely to Python and Pylons. My primary job is developing web
applications.

However, having already some tools written in PHP, namely an inhouse
CMS used for our clients (we do managed hosting of webapps as well),
I'd like to port those to Python, namely Pylons, and opensource them
(yeah, I have the authority, I'm the CEO and lead dev). Unless of
course such components already exist?

I'm talking about developing (porting) a set of (purely) RESTful
components for resource (content) management. For example, SmartPages
(nested hierarchy of pages not unlike Drupal's "book"), articles with
categories, product catalog, gallery, newsletter, etc...

The idea is to have the components fully prepared as Python modules
(models, controllers and mako templates), and enable adding them to
the project using paster, for example:

#paster component SmartPages

which would unpack the component, place models, templates and
controllers in respective directories, add commented entries to the
url mapper, etc... depending on what the component needs. The
developers could then use them as is, or modify to suit their needs
(most likely), especially URIs and routes.

The idea was to call the project Presto: Pylons RESTful Objects. :)

I may be reinventing the wheel here, you guys will know if such things
already exist. I am also very new to Python so it might take a little
while before I get a grip and do a (rather big) paradigm shift from
PHP to Python.


Thanks,

Vlad

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