On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Uwe Schroeder <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Monday 19 October 2009 10:37:04 am Chris Arndt wrote:
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>> One reason for doing this survey was to find out, whether there is
>> still interest in further development of a CherryPy based TG version
>> or if we just do a couple more maintenance releases of the TG 1.1
>> branch and then let it rest. I would be interested in working on TG
>> 1.5 but I am only willing to put effort in this, if there is
>> sufficient interest. The TG 1 developer base is very small now
>> (basically only three active devs atm), and continuing to evolve the
>> TG 1 code base would mean a serious commitment and I'm not even sure
>> there is a place for it in the Python web framework world. I certainly
>> think that it would not make sense to continue both branches under the
>> umbrella of the "TurboGears" moniker, but that's just my opinion. On
>> the other hand, I get often get reports from people running still on
>> TG 1 and no intention of switching soon.
>
> Switching a large application is really hard. I've started working on
> switching my app to TG2, but honestly, it will probably take a year to get
> there. So many crucial things changed completely (nope, not starting the
> compatibility rant again :-) ), so in my case I need to completely rewrite a
> heck of a lot of code and that doesn't even cover the whole registration,
> signup and auth stuff.
>
Could you please elaborate on this more. Are you still using
sqlobject? Regarding the auth&auth stuff. Could you please point out
the places where the API is not backwards compatible for your needs?

> TG1 works fine so far. It has it's quirks and I invented a bunch of 
> workarounds
> to make it work the way I want. I checked up on TG2 and there I'd need another
> bunch of workarounds, which would require learning the completely different
> base of things.

which TG2 workarounds?

> TG1.1 and TG1.5 have very similar issues to TG2 in my case. My
> biggest issue is that there is no toscawidgets support for TG1 anymore.
> Resources are not injected anymore. So I'm using a stone age toscawidgets
> release on TG1.0.4 which one can't even download anymore. Toscawidgets itself
> didn't change all that much, but omitting the resources from loading is just a
> killer. What good does it do to define a javascript that is never injected?
>
> So basically I'm stuck on a 1.0.4 version and I don't have the time or the
> resources to pull it over to TG2 anytime soon
>
As others said this shouldn't be the case.

> Uwe
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> >
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