On 10/16/05, Art <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks John, > > This is very helpful. I have both, TG and Subway on my system and I'm > experimenting with both. Turbo Gears seems to be well put together and > better documented than Subway. Though the idea of flows is cool and > meybe it should be expanded upon in TG but I guess this is something I > should bring up with Kevin.
As you have :) For small scale webapps (in terms of usage volume), something like flows are cool. I had taken a look at Seaside when I was starting Zesty News, and I do like how natural this style can be. For larger scale webapps, flows are a potential nightmare. I'm sure that scaling considerations can be worked out, but every time you toss out the "shared nothing" concept and add additional server-side statefulness, you're possibly setting yourself up. If you write a whole application around flows, you could have a bunch of changes to make if you ever hit the point where you've got more users than the architecture can handle. I don't believe in premature optimization, though, and there are certainly categories of applications for which flows are cool. They'd be pretty low on my priority queue. I'd be willing to discuss them, but I'm not likely to implement them myself. Kevin -- Kevin Dangoor Author of the Zesty News RSS newsreader email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company: http://www.BlazingThings.com blog: http://www.BlueSkyOnMars.com
