I am not sure where it is going... My understanding, is that Joe explain what he means by admin and devs (that I did already understand in the first place, but he make it clear)... And what I understand, is that he think that web2py help more admins in their day to day work then developers...
If my reading is rights, he wure has suggestion to improve web2py for devs... Richard On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote: > In that POV, you'll always identify an "administrator" as a person who > "clicks" on existing apps he didn't code and a "developer" of apps someone > that "clicks" on fruits of his mind. That's basically comparing oranges and > bananas....wordpress is hardly a framework. It's an application that does > one job well. > The fact that php+mysql was the defacto standard for web hosters (and the > relative lack of "easy blogging" environments) made the spread of wordpress > "hacks" and ecosystem rather large, but making wordpress do "whatever" is > pretty limited to installing something relatively uncoupled (except for > authentication and the common "webpage style"). Moreover, if you don't know > the first thing about php, any - little or big - customization you want > means trusting someone else that did it. > > web2py will hardly replace any known application that already does a job > well. It's not a job for a framework but for an app. > No company will adopt web2py as a file sharing platform if a sharepoint > farm is already in place, and I won't ever recommend the builtin web2py > wiki over mediawiki for a CMS with 10k pages. > > If you're fine with it, by all means, be an "administrator". But when > you'll need something that no existing thing does (or you can't afford it), > be a developer. > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
