On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Martin Aspeli <optilude+li...@gmail.com<optilude%2bli...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> ken manheimer wrote: > > > now, instead of just asking whether and how to use plone under wsgi, i'm > > considering whether i should be looking at switching my focus to bfg, at > > least for some projects. while i'm thankful to better understand the > > various projects, i'm a bit overwhelmed at the uncertainties in each > > direction and division of attention necessary to keep all in sight! > > tres has often referred to the ironic chinese curse, "may you live in > > interesting times" - these are interesting times, indeed, for a web > > application developer. > > This is a bit of a strange statement. Plone is a web content management > system. BFG is a Python application development framework. Quite a few > people are happy to keep both those tools in their toolbox, but I don't > think they can be compared like for like insofar as you can switch your > focus from one to the other to solve a particular problem (unless the > solution is to write your own CMS from scratch, but if that's feasible, > then Plone is probably overkill for the requirements). > i think you're right, it is a strange statement. perhaps because my interest is from a somewhat different than typical direction. i'm interested in how wide-spread grass-roots community collaboration could be supported doing "gluing" of cloud-based resources - events dissemination and coordination, link and document resource sharing, etc. hooking-in content management systems (like plone) would be one consideration, as an end-point resource, and things like repoze.bfg on app-engine<http://docs.repoze.org/bfg/current/tutorials/gae/index.html>might be useful for doing the gluing... Of course, BFG is a nice web framework - I can recommend you looking > into it. ;) > thanks - i'm hoping to get at least acquainted with it, and very interested in how the app engine can be used as a gluing resource (whatever that will end up meaning), and BFG on app engine may serve my to-be-identified needs... -- ken http://myriadicity.net > Martin > > -- > Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who > want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book > > _______________________________________________ > Repoze-dev mailing list > Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org > http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev >
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