On Jun 20, 10:14 am, Faye <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We're thinking of migrating from Ruby on Rails to web2py, but have
> some concerns about making the switch:
>
> 1. Does web2py officially support Python 2.6.2? Our standard server
> configurations use Python 2.6.2 and we don't want to install/support
> two pythons.
"officially" we say we only support 2.5 because if people use 2.6 only
syntax they app will not work on 2.5. "technically" web2py runs on 2.6
with only one known issue: The cgi module that parses form variables
behaves differently in 2.5 and 2.6. If you do a POST and you also have
variables defined in the URL they behave in different ways. You have
to be careful about this in your own code. To my knowledge the only
part of web2py code that is affected is redirection after login. I was
planning to change the code tomorrow in trunk so that is behaves the
same in 2.5 and 2.6.
> 2. Are web2py security fixes/updates timely and backwards
> compatible? We can't upgrade to major new (incompatible) versions
> just to get security fixes.
We do not distinguish between security fix releases and major releases
because we NEVER broke and NEVER will break backward compatibility.
That is why we "official" support 2.5 and not 2.6. You should always
upgrade to the latest version of web2py. If we involuntarily break
something we treat it as a bug. Let us know and we fix it immediately.
> 3. What is web2py's release & support policy? How long is each major
> version of web2py supported with secuirty & bug fixes before being
> retired? An official policy like Ubuntu would help ease concerns on
> the enterprise because it makes planning ahead easy.
We try to have biweekly releases. 1.xx.0, we have bug fix releases
1.xx.yy when needed.
> 4. What is web2py's recommended plugin/library to use Paypal IPN?
> This needs to be stable--not bet--since it deals with monetary
> transactions.
I do not know. I have never used paypal with web2py. I strongly
recommend using google checkout instead and this library:
http://web2py.appspot.com/plugin_checkout/default/checkout
It is very solid. It was used to run the PyCon 2009 conference
registration. We did not miss one transaction (800 payments). It
includes level 2 notifications. i.e. google informs your app about all
stages of a payment process including cancellations and refunds. It is
very secure because all communications between google and your app are
encrypted, authenticated, initiated by google, google re-tries if your
app does not respond.
> FWIW, one important reason looking for alternatives to Ruby On Rails
> is security. We want to easily fix underlying security issues with
> the language and the framework. But we don't see a way to get
> automatic & fast security updates on Ruby On Rails without backwards
> compatibility concerns.
One again. We promise our users not to break backward compatibility
this is a policy.
We never had any security related bug (as far as I can remember).
> If Ruby (the language) and RoR (the framework) had an official release
> policy similar to Ubuntu, we probably wouldn't be looking at
> alternatives. So I'm hoping other frameworks don't make the same
> mistake.
Massimo
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