On Mar 22, 10:29 pm, Raoul Snyman <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with askel. I use Drupal as my CMS for sites that I work on. > It may be PHP, but it's extremely powerful and extensible. Besides, if > you wanted something as powerful and extensible as Drupal, you'd > probably want to write it from scratch in Python, rather than using a > framework like Pylons. As awesome as Pylons is, it would restrict the > extensibility of the CMS.
Could you explain that last statement a bit further? I suspect I'm naively missing something about Pylons extensibility (or lack thereof) :) > You want a CMS? Use Drupal. > You want to develop a web application? Use Pylons. I can relate to that thinking, but there is a lot of crossover between sites and apps these days. It is a continuum rather than an either/or. As a Drupal user (and fan - don't get me wrong) for the last 5 years or so, I still have fantasies about using some hypothetical content layer on top of Pylons or TG2 instead. Not something that cloned Drupal mind you - just something pythonic and extensible that was inspired by it but without the ever expanding PHP array boilerplate. I wouldn't need the example themes, or the base CMS app, the exact API, or the installer etc just the pluggable content framework. So it would be approaching the middle ground from the other end ie adding content handling to a webapp framework rather that coding a webapp in a CMS framework. Drupal is getting much more complex as it grows and is putting a huge amount of effort into partially reinventing themselves (NIH) things that Python web developers already have eg SQLAlchemy, TW, the repoze libraries etc. -- Cheers Anton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
