Perhaps when developers need a CMS, they tend to go with one of the big, popular, well-refined ones, like Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, etc. Frameworks like web2py may be seen as more useful for custom applications that cannot be implemented via a standard CMS -- there may be little motivation to reinvent the CMS wheel with web2py when there are already so many CMS'es out there. This is not unique to web2py -- I don't think the other Python frameworks have well developed CMS'es either (except Plone, based on Zope). Django and Rails each have a couple CMS'es, but even they pale in comparison to the various PHP-based CMS'es when it comes to popularity and ecosystem. More generally, I don't think the most popular CMS'es tend to be built on top of existing frameworks, but are more likely to be built from scratch specifically as a CMS.
That doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't have at least a basic web2py-based CMS, but it may be unrealistic to expect something as comprehensive and polished as Joomla any time soon (even Django and Rails don't really have that). Developing and maintaining a CMS like that is probably as much work as developing and maintaining the framework itself (maybe more), so it's not likely to arise as a mere side project of a few community members -- it needs its own full, dedicated developer core and active community. Anthony On Monday, July 30, 2012 8:02:56 AM UTC-4, Gour wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:45:15 +1000 > Alec Taylor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > If I wasn't working on a separate sizable web2py project (a > > social-network) then I'd build this (a CMS) with specifications > > similar to Mezzanine. > > Nice to hear. > > > But hold on a month or two, and you'll see fairly similar features in > > my social-network + more. > > Well, I'm afraid that it will be another one-man project without much > community around it. > > I'll try & play with Mezzanine to get a feel for it, but I might > reconsider web2py at a later point in time. > > > Still, I'm interested why there are not more CMS/blog apps written in > web2py...maybe that is niche market for this framework... > > > Sincerely, > Gour > > -- > From wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady > nature, one must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under > the control of the self. > > http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810 > --
