On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Tim Joseph Dumol <t...@timdumol.com> > wrote: > > <SNIP> > > That's excellent. I personally favor Pylons as well, but I thought Django > is > > the more popular, and thus more hackable framework at the moment. I would > > love to see his code. > > Indeed, I know Django, so I know how to get things done in that. But I > don't know Pylons, so I would have to learn it first (which I am not > opposed to). > > Since you know both, could you please tell me the advantages of pylons > over django? I browsed through the pylons tutorials and documentation > and it seems to me it's just another framework, so one can do the same > things as in django, just differently, so that's annoying. Maybe there > is some conceptual difference? > > Django is designed to be a monolithic framework -- the ORM, templating system, url routing, authentication, etc. are all from Django. Pylons is designed to be highly modular -- the ORM can be any of SQLObject, SQLAlchemy, or any other ORM you want, and the same goes for the rest. This makes it much easier to switch backends, templating systems, etc. It also makes moving out of the framework easier -- although that doesn't seem to be much of a problem. Also, Pylons based its MVC paradigm on Rails, while Django has an MTV (Model-Template-Controller) paradigm. Django was originally designed to be run from `mod_python`, while Pylons was designed from the ground up to run on WSGI. This means that it is much simpler to use WSGI middleware. Django, on the other hand, has its own non-standard middleware system. Pylons has pluggable solutions to Django's monolithic packages -- AuthKit for authentication, Jinja2/Mako/Genshi/... for templating, etc. That's as far as I can get from the top of my head. > Ondrej > > > > -- Tim Joseph Dumol <tim (at) timdumol (dot) com> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
