Malcolm, Russell, James, Thanks for taking the time to respond so thoroughly to my questions.
I think that these questions are rooted in the unrealistic idea that something that looks like it would be good relationship- or PR-wise is also a good development priority. As I expressed, I've simply thought that GAE would be a no-brainer, but that is obviously not the case when viewed against other development work with more concrete demand. Now it is time for me to put-up or shut-up. Hopefully it will not be the latter (and making a post like this can be a good motivator)! -Dave On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 09:51 -0500, David Stenglein wrote: >> I have to ask a question here. Why is there such reticence regarding >> App Engine? It would >> seem to me that App Engine has been a feather in the cap for Django. A >> lot of people don't know Django and at a previous job, I was able to >> say that "Google chose django" for App Engine to help validate my use >> of it. > > To echo everybody else; There simply isn't any reticence. > >> >> If so, why the seeming lack of excitement around App Engine? Are >> google engineers not involved in the community? > > Possibly. If they are, they aren't posting from their @google.com > addresses, as far as I can see on this list. > > I would point out that the original GAE integration with Django could > have been implemented quite differently and a lot of this could have > Just Worked out of the box. However, there were reasonably (not > perfectly) valid corporate and legal reasons why Google chose not to > and/or couldn't do that. So the thing works both ways. Google made some > choices and this thread is now about working around those choices to > integrate more nicely. > > Regards, > Malcolm > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
