On 12/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm very pleased with TurboGears and idea that you can mix and match > many quality > components across frameworks such > as TurboGears, Django and Pylons.
Well you can mix and match between TG and Pylons without too much difficulty. With Django, you can swap pieces out but you start losing features quickly if you do so (admin, generic views). At least that's my understanding. I'm not a particularly advanced Django user. > This seems great to me for Python's growth in the web space. I think it is. > However, the hype seems to be that Ruby + Rails is in a better position > because > you ONLY have one choice and customers have it easier. > > Is this true or are all the good choices now a good thing? Both can be true. There is a cost associated with increasing the number of choices. The simple explanation for the cost of choice is that more choices take more time to evaluate. The more complicated answer is that people don't like picking incorrectly. More choices increases the chance that you can pick wrong, which plays on the fear of choosing incorrectly. If you go beyond a certain point, many people will reject all the choices. Taken together, these factors are the tyranny of choice. I personally think having 2 or 3 choices in Python web stacks is good, having more is bad. I tell people that there are dozens of web-related frameworks in Python but they should pick TG or Django. I briefly explain the philosophy behind both, mention that I use TG, and say that if they don't like those options, I can provide further advice. Where Rails really has an advantage is that it has a year or two head start on the Python frameworks plus DHH and 37Signals do a great job marketing the framework. This along with the only-one-option means that it's easier to find commodity hosting for Rails and you see stuff like Amazon approving Rails for production use. Rails is also established enough to spawn its own ecosystem and you're seeing projects like Mongrel designed specifically to work with Rails. The Python community, is traditionally horrible with marketing but the Django guys are doing pretty well. The advantages of the Python web community are that Python is a more mature language than Ruby and has a much larger selection of third party software. From what I've seen, the Python web solutions are technically better than the Rails equivalents but are less integrated. I look forward to the coming WSGIfication of TG and the splitting up of TG packages into reusable components. Next year should be a good year for Python on the web. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
