> I really wish some consideration was given to the fact that beginners > will know almost nothing about SQLAlchemy vs. Elixir vs. SQLObject, > or Identity vs. Authkit vs. roll-your-own-with-cookies, etc.
If you're a beginner, and you feel overwhelmed by the complexities of stuff I'd recomend using SQLObject, Identity, Kid, and all the other defaults in the current release. Yes, we know that they won't all be the defaults in the future, but the should still be supported, or at least have a well defined upgrade path. And as you say, they are relatively well documented, and good enough for many (perhaps most) purposes. One of the major reasons they are still the defaults is that they are documented in ways that the alternatives are not. But we do plan on having good docs for the future components -- hopefully *before* we switch the defaults. > It's a lot of auditing work to do before getting started. I suppose I was > 'unlucky' in that I started using Elixir because a piece of draft > documentation said it was recommended! Had I started at a different > time, I might have struggled on with the ugly-but-well-understood > plain SQLAlchemy methods and got things working, but there you go. Agreed, and it would have been better if we'd gotten that figured out quicker for you. I know it's hard working against a moving target, and I know it's also hard choosing the "old" components when there's new stuff coming and so TurboGears has put users in a hard place. Hopefully people will understand that this kind of thing is difficult to avoid in an open source project and will be willing to chip in a hand answer quesitons on the list, write up what they know on the wiki, and otherwise help us get through to the other side of this. --Mark Ramm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
