Hi everyone, first of all, let me introduce myself. I'm the main developer behind app-engine-patch which is a port of Django to App Engine: http://code.google.com/p/app-engine-patch/ Our repository version of Django now even supports the admin interface and almost all of Django's other features, so our code could be reused in an official port.
The problem here is that I have to use App Engine's Model class everywhere. The port could've been much easier if Django's Model were supported. App Engine's field classes don't even take a help_text parameter and the whole DB API is a little bit disappointing compared to Django. Also, I have to apply monkey-patches in a few places in order to fix bugs which Google doesn't seem to have enough time for. : ( A native Django port could provide us with a clean, more powerful, and more actively developed API for App Engine development. Moreover, it could provide a solution for provider lock-in by abstracting the underlying API and thus making easy migrations possible. I know that a lot of changes in the storage/query backend code need to be done in order to support the App Engine datastore and similar databases and I doubt that I can do the necessary API changes, but I could at least help with implementing the App Engine backends (sessions, cache, mail, db/storage). As a starting point, I've documented a few high-level requirements here: http://code.google.com/p/app-engine-patch/wiki/DjangoAppEnginePort Is there any roadmap towards App Engine support? Is anyone working on it, already? When will someone work on it and in which Django release can we expect native support? Is 1.2 possible? BTW, could someone please activate my "wkornewald" Trac account, so I can move the documentation into your wiki? I just don't receive any activation mail when registering. I tried sending to webmas...@djangoproject.com, but that address doesn't exist. Who can I talk to? Bye, Waldemar Kornewald --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
