Does anyone have the roughest ball-park estimation on when pyramid will be going beta?
Thanks. Jerry On Nov 15, 7:19 am, Ben Bangert <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 14, 2010, at 1:54 PM, BrianTheLion wrote: > > > I've been away for a while and am trying to come up to speed on some > > pretty significant developments in the pylons community. I've spent > > considerable time with the pyramid docs in the last week but have > > failed to find an answer to one very important question: If your goal > > (like mine) is to build web apps, what reasons do you have to switch > > to pyramid? > > If you don't need the extensibility, if you're building a single app for the > whole company. You probably don't have much reason to change at all. The fact > that you haven't seen some pyramid add-on you're dying to use already sort of > answers that. > > > Let me engage in a bit of flame-fanning here just to make a point. As > > of right now, pyramid and pylons (v1.0) are, effectively, competing > > technologies. They are competing for the mindshare amongst Python web > > application developers. When our BDFLs tell us that pyramid is an > > improvement over pylons, I believe them but I don't particularly care. > > As an app-dev, I am pretty much agnostic to things like pylon's > > extensibility model (http://docs.pylonshq.com/faq/ > > pylonsproject.html#why-not-just-continue-developing-the-pylons-1-0- > > code-base). What I care about is how quickly and easily I can get my > > app up and running, how easy it will be to support and maintain. > > Bottom line, I think the BDFLs have punted on making a pro-pyramid > > technical argument to their app-devs, maybe because there isn't one to > > be made. > > We aren't preaching the gospel on Pyramid right now because it's still alpha. > As I mentioned on my blog, I'll be writing posts about things Pyramid > addresses in the future, until then, I'm sorry, but you'll have to wait like > everyone else. I only have so much time in the day, I have to budget my time > very carefully. > > > Flame-fanning finished. And I was lying about not caring. *I BELIEVE* > > and I want to see pyramid go forward. But in the end app-devs are the > > least of pyramid's worries; we're always looking for excuses to learn > > new things. Middle managers are much more difficult to convince. > > Hence, I'm calling for some management-friendly pro-pyramid > > propaganda:https://github.com/Pylons/pylonshq/issues/issue/2. If > > you're an app-dev trying to figure out how you're going to convince > > your manager to let you learn pyramid, bump it up! > > When we're ready for management types to move entire development shops to > Pyramid, we'll have that documentation. Right now, the focus isn't on that, > its on getting things done so that such a case will be trivial to make in the > future. > > Cheers, > Ben -- 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.
