> to this point i don't think there are many people sweating bullets over the > portability of their app engine apps
I'm not sweating over it, but this is still important for me because my client may later want their GAE app migrated to a personal server. Also I don't want to be locked into GAE if their service plans change for the worse. Richard On Oct 1, 8:55 am, AndrewLoot <[email protected]> wrote: > Developers in the two different paradigms SQL vs GAE have different > concerns. I have no knowledge of all the things that the web2py DAL > does but it seems to me it has a few purposes that are great in the > world of SQL databses but either moot or a hinderence in terms of App > Engine. > > they are : > > 1: Broad portability of a web2py app: with a single api to implement > use most common databases > > to this point i don't think there are many people sweating bullets > over the portability of their app engine apps, their sweating bullets > over performance and scalability and doing new interesting things that > are hard to do with SQL or only possible under that specific platform. > > 2: Object Relational Management: is this a separate layer or part of > the DAL? I dunno but isn't the app engine api already objectified as > if an ORM was built into app engine? Perhaps I'm mistaken on this. > > I love web2py but i fear a tyranny of dead ideas here. Holding to the > old way of doing things eg. "have a DAL so people don't have to think > about databases" that can be great if by "databases" you mean SQL > databases. Are we overlaying a good design pattern in a completely > different context that leads to something that is decidedly sub > optimal. > > so i guess what I'm trying to say is.. in my native dialect of js > > if(dataStore == "SQL") { > alert("DAL/ORM FTW!!");} else if(dataStore == "GAE") { > > alert("DAL/ORM... wheres the beef"); > > } > > my $0.2 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
