On Friday 22 February 2008 15:58:04 Kevin Horn wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Devin Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > I can't believe we're having this discussion on this mailing list. Use > > AuthKit. If you're having problems understanding it contact me and > > I'll try to help you, but we don't need to be reimplementing the wheel > > here. Pylons has already chosen the best of breed packages for you, if > > you have a problem with one of them then improve it.You said "it needs > > a bit of continuing love to make it into all it could be." Well? Give > > it that bit of continuing love! > > > > I just don't understand why we're trying to replace Pylons. We chose > > it, now build on top of it and improve it. > > > > -Devin > > Personally, my problem with AuthKit was not that it was hard to understand, > but that: > 1) It couldn't do some things I wanted to do > 2) It would have been more work to retrofit those features than to "roll my > own"...and the result would not have looked anything like AuthKit. > > So I decided to create a library that would handle what I wanted. When the > topic came up on the TG-trunk mailing list, I mentioned my thoughts, people > seemed interested, and so now I'm working on something that _may_ become > the default for TG2. > > AuthKit may be the "best of breed", but for me, it isn't good enough. I > don't mean it's bad, just that it isn't what I want in an auth framework. > > Of course, even if it does, nothing stops people from using AuthKit if it > meets their needs. It should be as simple as some config file changes and > changing a line or two in middleware.py > > Kevin Horn > > Well let me know what these features are that everyone wants.
I'm also not sure how TG1.x accomplished authentication (wasn't it just forward authentication?), so if anyone could enlighten me on how TG1.x authentication was performed I could probably provide a counter-example. -Devin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" 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/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
