-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim Hoffman wrote: > Hi All > > We (KT Studio), have a fairly significant site based on BFG (pre 1.1) > running on app engine very successfully. (www.polytechnic.wa.edu.au). > (We have other bfg based app engine apps in the pipeline). (Also about > to go live with a bobo, repoze.what and zope.component/zope.interface, > formish based app as an alternate stack) > > Much of what Chris has said is spot on the mark, (though there are > emerging tools like TyphoonAE which provide > an alternate deployment to google for the app engine api). In fact > appengine should really be thought of as an API and collection of > services that you build your application too. > > We see a huge advantage in app engine if you can deal with the > restrictions of the platform because it > does remove a major area of support requirements (namely the OS, > scaling, failover and the app stack (web server, rdbms etc)). > > The main things I find I have to do when building is removing things > we don't use, (paste scripts don't help much, therefor no ini files > etc.., ) , Which really means just hooking bfg up with the wsgi > handler. > > I personally think bfg offers some big advantages over Django on > appengine, though you probably have to do a little more work in some > areas, but there seems to be a bit of an impedance mis-match between > Django its ORM and App Engine. > > Where as bfg just gets out of the way, but does what it does well. > Also not tying forms directly to the model is a good thing. > I really have not found myself trying to work around things in > appengine. (Especially now we can do configuration directly in > python). > > Just my 2c ;-)
To ask for another $AU .25: can somebody point to the currently-best docs on doing BFG on GAE? There are a number of somewhat-contractictory writeups out in the wild, which leads to some confusion when folks want to try it out: I talked to a user at the D.C. ZPUG the other night who was intereested in evaluating it, but couldn't figure out what was supposed to work, and how. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkvitnAACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ7BvwCg1UvowXtFQNmPGItvpeCgRXx5 ecYAoJM7HjxAIJRvNqbYZscJCNIvRng1 =vqf/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
