Hi there. About a year ago I mentioned on this list that I am doing a survey of 80 web framework (and related) projects. (It forms part of my Masters dissertation.) Some people here have expressed interest in the results.
I've put up a wiki with the results at: http://www.reahl.org/wfmwiki. It would be great if you could join in - especially the serious web framework developers. I include some text from the introduction below. Regards -- Iwan Vosloo ------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ============ There are many web frameworks available at the moment - new ones pop up very regularly. It takes quite a bit of effort to figure out what the essence of a new framework is. Biologists are faced with a similar problem when they discover a new exotic animal. But they have a valuable tool to their disposal. They have a taxonomy of different kinds of animals. When a new animal is discovered, it is classified according to this taxonomy. This act of classification already attaches a lot of known knowledge about the new animal - a big aid in getting to grips with "yet another animal". This wiki is an attempt at creating a similar tool for people who are interested in studying and comparing web frameworks. The task of keeping an up-to-date and useful map of the web framework world is a little daunting if you think about it: The world is a big place, and there are very many web frameworks in it. New web frameworks pop up regularly. Careful study of each of these takes a lot of time and effort. Each web framework designer seems to invent particular terminology that may or may not mean the same as the terminology used by others. And, of course, these things keep changing and growing. But it is precisely in such an environment that a map of sorts is useful. It gives structure: if you're working with a particular framework, it often helps to know where it fits with the rest of the world: to know its fundamental intention, strengths and weaknesses. When you want to create a new one, a map can show what is new and what is old-hat. This wiki was created with the hope that others may find it useful and that the interested parties can use it to collaborate and keep the web framework map growing and useful. _______________________________________________ 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
