Todd Grimason wrote: [snip] > In other words, good docs, good tutorials, sample applications (beyond > 10-liners), and yes, as much as many coders seem to distain it, > good-looking websites. If someone coming to web programming from X or Y > language (X or Y not being python or ruby), and looks at the Rails site > compared to almost any of the python frameworks, they'd very likely > conclude it [Rails] is a more mature, widely used, and professional > toolkit -- even though in many cases that's completely not true.
Right, Rails does buzz and marketing right. For more on my thinking on that, see here: http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2005/04/06/0 > There is probably more sample code (test apps, example sites) on the > Rails site in teh past 6 months than a bunch of the python kits all > combined over years. Zope 3 actually has a lot of sample code in the Zope 3 book by Stephan Richter, which is online, just extremely well hidden in an obscure and scary wiki, last I checked. :) I agree very much that much of the reason Rails has the buzz now is because it does marketing right. Plone is another example of a project which does marketing well. Good marketing is a lot of work that developers might not want to do; they may not have the skills or insight, and beside that they'd rather write code instead. But assuming your goal is to compete with Rails, you're going to have to do a good marketing job. For marketing to developers, this also means writing good tutorials and introductions and making them easy to find. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list [email protected] Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
