On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Mark Ramm<[email protected]> wrote: > > There's been a bit of discussion on the list, and I want to re-assure > TG 1.x users that they are not being abandoned. We intend to support > 1.x long term, and if you're willing to help out 1.x can continue to > be maintained and improved as long as you want. > > TG2 is not backwards compatable with 1.x in many ways, we've tried to > keep the same API's for the core TG stuff most of the time, but > updating 10% of a half million lines of code could still be a major > undertaking. And many of us continue to maintain 1.x applications > ourselves, which is just to say we're all still invested in 1.x > continuing to live and thrive. > I just want to point out that other minor things (identity for example) are things I want to work on porting. For example we know that the current "query api" for "identity" isn't quite there and I want to make it more TG1ish for TG2. Any other improvements/suggestions for the minor stuff are also welcome.
> TG2 does not support Kid or SQLObject at this time, but we'd be more > than happy to help anybody who has kid/SQLObject code and wants to > migrate to tg2 whithout having to rewrite that stuff. Kid support > could probably be added by an interested party in a couple hours if > they knew where to start, and SQLObject support might take more than > that if you wanted to tie it in to the transactin manager and > everything. But even SO support should be a reasonable task for a > single person to do in a couple of days, and both would be gladly > rolled into TG2 if somebody needs them. > yea totally adding kid should be a really simply thing. If you are interested please talk to me as I got some experience with that code and can even send you a "patch" with a "insert your render call here" for you to finish. For SO it's another story, and I'll love to see that as tgext.sqlobject or something. > I have been using Genshi and SQLAlchemy for all my TG1 applications > for a couple of years now, so that person isn't likely to be me, but > I'm likely to be a great cheerleader and supporter of someone willing > to help ;) > Same here. > -- > Mark Ramm-Christensen > email: mark at compoundthinking dot com > blog: www.compoundthinking.com/blog > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
