On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Vernon Cole <vernondc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ummm... reality check... > > Patrik: > I have been lurking on the django developers list (along with IronPython) > for several years hoping for exactly the combination you are suggesting. I > am unaware that anyone has tackled the project of making django run on > IronPython yet, on either Windows or mono. As I see it, there may be two > problems. > 1) django has issues with strings being assumed to be 8-bit bytes. This > has to be fixed to port django to Python 3, and I suggested that IronPython > would be a useful stepping stone in that effort, but no one took the bait > AFAIK. > 2) django's built-in object relational mapper is targeted at four > databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Oracle. > (see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/databases/) > Of these four, I think that only SQLite is well supported by IronPython. > Oracle, MySQL and PostgresSQL are accessible from IronPython using my > adodbapi package, but it only works on Windows, since it relies on Microsoft > COM to reach the ODBC database engine (via traditional ADO). My own efforts > to use pure ADO.NET database calls had a rather dismal result, and I > abandoned the branch. To my knowledge, the only other PEP 249 database APIs > for IronPython are the group on fePy, which have not been maintained in > several years. I am also unsure about the level of database support in > mono. > > If someone is working on support for django on IronPython, I would love to > be part of the project.
I did work on it a bit a few years ago, and there's some out-of-date patches at https://bitbucket.org/jdhardy/django-ipy-patches. This was before IronPython was taking contributions, so getting fixes into IP was much harder. If anybody is interested in it, and is aware that there's a massive amount of work involved, you'd have my full support, and any fixes would be greatly appreciated. - Jeff _______________________________________________ Ironpython-users mailing list Ironpython-users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ironpython-users
