Re: Dev attitude towards Windows and IIS

2008-05-07 Thread rcs_comp
Rejeeve & Waylan: Thanks for the pointers. I will check them out. On May 7, 1:26 pm, "Waylan Limberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another alternative is Django on IronPython. I'm not involved > personally, but my understanding is that it currently works (at least > to some extent) and there

Re: Dev attitude towards Windows and IIS

2008-05-07 Thread rcs_comp
First, maybe an apology is in order? I am sorry that if my post came off harsh or chastising, my intent was to encourage. "I think the comment is not harsh but very honest about the current state of affairs, and this kind of candor is essential." Agreed that candor is essential. How come the

Re: Dev attitude towards Windows and IIS

2008-05-07 Thread Waylan Limberg
Another alternative is Django on IronPython. I'm not involved personally, but my understanding is that it currently works (at least to some extent) and there is an effort underway to iron (sorry couldn't resist) out the bugs. I could be wrong, but as IronPython is basically python on .NET, I

Re: Dev attitude towards Windows and IIS

2008-05-07 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:23 PM, rcs_comp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just remember that there are people out there like me who see a lot of > potential for Django but are confined to using IIS and MSSQL. Don't > be skeptical of us, use our interest in Django to make the framework > that

Re: Dev attitude towards Windows and IIS

2008-05-07 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:53 AM, rcs_comp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Maybe I am reading too much into the comment, but I would like to > encourage you to steer clear of the attitude behind this statement. And I'd encourage you to quote in context-- a user had repeatedly marked the ticket

Re: Dev attitude towards Windows and IIS

2008-05-07 Thread Elliot Murphy
I think it is perfectly reasonable to decide what platforms you are interested in working with when you are contributing your efforts to free software. Perhaps if you think Django should work better on IIS you could work on it yourself or pay someone else to work on that, rather than chastising

Dev attitude towards Windows and IIS

2008-05-07 Thread rcs_comp
I came across this ticket: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2039 and was somewhat disappointed by one of the comments I read. I wrote this response, but then realized it should probably come here rather than go in the ticket system. Replying to [comment:18