Howdy!
On 2011-03-23 10:31:10 -0700, nh2 said:
It looks like there are quite some form libraries around: Toscawidgets
1, Toscawidgets 2, Sprox, formish, deform and maybe even more.
Hell, even I've written one called marrow.tags (which includes
marrow.widgets) that uses an efficient Python-based DSL vs. other
templating engines. It's in active use in the Contentment CMS.
1. Could someone make a comparison of the basic philosophies,
differences and similarities?
ToscaWidgets is the "gold standard" for widgeting, coming from the
development of TurboGears. Many libraries rely upon it and there are
quite a number of additional packages to add new widgets and widget
categories.
Sprox is built upon ToscaWidgets and performs database introspection to
automatically build forms. It works well, though customization
requires some pretty deep knowledge of the Sprox code. (Not difficult
to do; it's well organized.)
I have not had the chance to utilize formish or deform, and even
dropped the use of ToscaWidgets in favour of hand-coded HTML forms,
and, most recently, marrow.tags.
2. Which ones are deprecated, which ones are actively maintained? On
which ones could we rely in case we move to Pylons 1.0 to Pyramid?
ToscaWidgets 1 is deprecated, based on the TG Widgets foundation.
ToscaWidgets 2 is current. Sprox, as mentioned, uses TW2.
ToscaWidgets, however, does some pretty weird manipulation of the
output of your application using a middleware layer.
3. What do you recommend for creating database generated forms (ala
Sprox)? Is tw2.sqla more than a 2010 alpha project?
Sprox is definitely the way to go, there. There's even a more
high-level system built upon it, and extracted from TurboGears in a
framework-agnostic way, that builds complete administration areas a la
Django's admin:
https://github.com/GothAlice/web.admin
It was extracted (and demonstrated as functional) almost exactly a year
ago at the ConFoo conference in Montréal by Chris Perkins (percious).
4. Does Sprox work on top of Toscawidgets 2?
Answered above.
Have a great day,
— Alice.
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