Even if it had the most beautiful site in the world, and that was enough to get permission to use it, a responsible developer would write some unit tests and check the items that he asked in his original question.
His highly-qualified scientists probably won't have any idea that a database driver even exists; they will be more interested in the part of the system that they actually interact with. Highly-qualified programmers and computer scientists won't care about the site or the language appearing on it, when they see the passing test suite. On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:01 PM, cbmeeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree with Will on this one. While it's not the site that makes the > software, it sure as heck determines how many people (and companies) > will take that first chance and use it. > > psycopg2 might be the best thing since sliced bread. I've always used > MS SQL and MySQL. Recently, I've started learning Python and > Postgres. After setting up Django and deciding to ditch MySQL and go > for Postgres, I too came to that rant of a page and wondered what the > heck was going on. Then I finally drilled down and found the > download. > > I work for Corporate America. Love it or hate it, Corporate America > (CA) like big flashy sites with contacts, mission statements, blah > blah blah. My bosses don't care about open source. Most people don't > understand it. Even if they did understand it, they don't care. Only > SOME programmers care about open source. (and I am one of them). > > Bottom line is that Mr Senior Manager VP of Programming at CA pushes > pencils all day making sure CA is compliant in every way with support > contracts and lots of red tape. Mr Sr Manager took a Cobol class > back in 1982 so that qualified him as an expert in software > development. So he decides to audit all source code and libraries. > But wait, he comes across psycopg2 and sees some "amateur" site with > swear words and orders the minions to remove all "amateur" code. "We > only deal with good software like DB2, Oracle or MS". > > THAT is the opinion of 99.999% of CA. And I don't mean the little two > man webshop in San Fran running a "revolutionary" site on how to > widgitize the mood swings of cats who have 2 million users using > LAMP. I mean the companies that FEED most of us code drones. > > That is what Will was trying to point out...I believe. > > Now, having said all of that....I DO believe FOSS is a great movement > in the software world. I AM using psycopg2 for my projects. But the > company I work for (5000 employees) have never even heard of Python, > Django, Postgres and especially psycopg2. > > Now, should the creators of psycopg2 worry about some super site? > Nah. But if they put a "please help...we need a better site" title on > their front page they might get a lot more support. Django's site is > beautiful. That's not what matters...but it sure as hell helped me > stick around and learn more. > > cbmeeks > http://codershangout.com (the most BEAUTIFUL site in the world!!! > hahahaah) > > > > On Jun 24, 10:07 am, Will <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm working on a project I'd like to use Django for, though my first > > hurdle will be convincing a team of highly qualified scientists, > > programmers and computer scientists that this is a good idea. > > > > Given we are most likely going to use PostgreSQL, This isn't > > particularly inspiring:http://www.initd.org/ > > > > Why should we trust psycopg2 to be a high quality piece of software? > > > > Will > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
