Dear ashdesigner I haven't tried Pinax for a while but last time I did (June 2009) I got the impression that it was an all-or-nothing affair. Pinax was marketing itself as a "social networking site in a box" and if that's what you wanted, it was a reasonable choice. However, it turned out that I required only a few of the apps in pinax, and quite a few other apps not in pinax. After some experimenting and toing and froing, I decided it would be much simpler to build something from scratch (of course with django these days "from scratch" is not really from scratch).
If someone's objective was to learn about django, I don't think Pinax would be a good choice at all, partly because all the work has already been done for you. Mingus might be better for that, as it was created as a case study of django applications working together. I second Cal Leeming's question: can anyone point to Pinax sites in the wild? Best wishes Ivan On Jan 19, 8:37 am, Oscar Carballal <piz...@gmail.com> wrote: > O Mar, 18-01-2011 ás 21:37 -0800, Gath escribiu: > > > > > Magee, > > > Wow! Now thats what we call a response. > > > You made me understand this subject more. > > > Thanks a lot Magee. > > > Gath. > > > On Jan 18, 5:32 pm, Russell Keith-Magee <russ...@keith-magee.com> > > wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] > > > > <cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote: > > > > I would be interested to hear from anyone who has usedPinaxin > > > > production. > > > > Although I am discouraged by the maturity (only 2 years old?), it does > > > > seem > > > > to contain some useful features. > > > > Personally, I would have liked to have seen some of these features > > > > merged > > > > into the Django core, rather than forked into a separate project, but > > > > that's > > > > just me. > > > > I think we need to clear up some misconceptions here. > > > [...] > > > However, for most "websitey" websites, this won't be an issue -- > > >Pinax'sconventions are, for the most part, a bunch of practices that > > > you should probably be following anyway --Pinaxjust forces/provides > > > the tools to help you to follow them :-) > > +1 > > I tried to usepinaxfor a project I'm developing right now and after a > while I decided to leave it and start from scratch. As Russ says,pinax > works pretty well if your needs follow the ones established bypinax > (social sites, intranets, etc.) but if you ever need other thing, or > just need an application frompinax, it's a pain to do it. > > Pinaxteam is rewriting most of the code to meet some standard > conventions and make the applications less attached to thepinaxmain > code. Also, some of the bundled projects are completely outdated, though > they work well, but if you use one of those (for example the social > site, it's the most outdated) you'll probably need to do a lot of > improvements on your own). > > If you want to trypinaxtry the development version (it's two versions > ahead of the stable), they are doing a good work. > > Regards, > Oscar Carballal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
