Just for embroil more... ...is possible in some way to use django template system, or jinja2 in web2py?
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:54 PM, cjrh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 26, 8:19 pm, VP <[email protected]> wrote: > > To be fair, the most popular option right now is SQLAlchemy, an ORM. > > DAL appears to be a minority approach. So, ORM must be good at > > something right? > > No. The number of people that support a thing has no bearing on that > thing's correctness. None whatsoever. Very large numbers of people > have supported really bad ideas throughout history, and even still > today. Only the merits of the specific case before us matter, not how > much support can be found for various options. > > > To get web2py out of the PR's ditch, I think it's best to refrain from > > commenting on perceived weaknesses of Django and other technologies. > > Agreed. All we need to do is build great sites. And anyway, I don't > see why we need to care about Django *at all*. Or any other > framework for that matter. Why care? Focus on the platform > available to us, i.e. HTTP (5?), CSS (3?), XML, Python (3?), and build > the best web development framework for that. It doesn't hurt to > consult the open literature (Django, Flask, Pyramid, Pylons, web.py, > etc.), but the existing software is only a landmark on the route, not > a stumbling block in the road.
