[Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-05-01 Thread Greg Wilson
Todd Grimason wrote: ...i'm coming to the conclusion that what's lacking most on any of the number of existing, good frameworks is just spit polish. In other words, good docs, good tutorials, sample applications (beyond 10-liners), and yes, as much as many coders seem to distain it,

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-29 Thread Jeremy Hylton
On 4/28/05, Greg Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My solution is for Guido (or someone with equivalent authority) to appoint someone Benevolent Dictator for the Web for One Year, with a mandate to put together something that has all the features that are getting Rails so much attention.

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-29 Thread Todd Grimason
Uh, just to clarify this was me, not mike, I forgot to kill that attribution line! * Todd Grimason [2005-04-29 12:02]: * mike bayer [2005-04-29 11:57]: Just to emerge from lurking for a moment, and without years of working in the python community like you guys, it seems pretty obvious to me

[Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-29 Thread Greg Wilson
Hi Jeremy; thanks for your post. Jeremy Hylton wrote: I don't think this is a good idea for several reasons. Let's imagine we could go back in time four years and tell the Ruby community the same thing: Appoint someone to research a popular new way of building web applications and add that to

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-29 Thread Shannon -jj Behrens
At the last Bay Piggies meeting, as well as at PyCon, Guido felt strongly that no Python Web application framework belonged in the Python standard library for these reasons: o The release schedule for such a library doesn't match the release schedule of Python. Imagine having to wait a year

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-29 Thread Robert Leftwich
Shannon -jj Behrens wrote: When I came to IronPort, I had to act as such a benevolent dictator, or rather, a benevolent concensus builder...Note, I'm not trying to force Aquarium on *anybody*. I wrote it because I needed it. I open sourced it because I like sharing. To add to JJ's background on

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-19 Thread Martijn Faassen
A.M. Kuchling wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 05:01:41PM +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote: If you spell it wrong, you either get a broken web application with no useful traceback, or else a monstously hideous traceback that's almost entirely useless. This is also part of why I've never been able to

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-19 Thread Martijn Faassen
Greg Wilson wrote: Paul Boddie wrote: ...I firmly believe in unbundling templating languages from frameworks. But doesn't that just make more work for the poor sods who are trying to build things? After all, they have to rebundle them, don't they? I think there's a difference between

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-19 Thread Ian Bicking
Martijn Faassen wrote: I've sighed a few times the last months when I ran into more and more Python-based schema and form frameworks. I developed Formulator for Zope 2 pretty early on, and was involved in 2002 in setting up Zope 3's schema framework, so I've contributed to the problem. In the

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-18 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 23:05, Martijn Faassen wrote: Buggy? I don't think ZCML is buggy. Where's that coming from? I wouldn't say ZCML is *buggy* as such, but it _is_ an utter pain in the arse to debug and get right. If you spell it wrong, you either get a broken web application with no

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-17 Thread Brendan O'Connor
Amen. I don't mean to slam the work of any web framework developers, but you can't overestimate how much it helps just-beginning web developers to see a unified framework, or at least a good website that directs them to one particular way to do things. this is what i dont understand;

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-15 Thread mike bayer
- I agree completely, that's why I'm adding yet another framework to the mix! (I'm waiting for someone to stand up at PyCon and say, Web App People's Front? We're the People's Front of Web Apps!) I think the term framework is becoming a little vague as well. there is the notion of

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-15 Thread Paul Boddie
mike bayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the term framework is becoming a little vague as well. there is the notion of framework as, the entire front-to-back approach to serve HTTP requests via Python, then there is the architectural approach that is used on top of an existing web API, and

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-15 Thread Ryan Tomayko
On Apr 15, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: Greg Wilson wrote: Paul Boddie wrote: ...I firmly believe in unbundling templating languages from frameworks. But doesn't that just make more work for the poor sods who are trying to build things? After all, they have to rebundle them, don't

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-13 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Not much debate from me here on this front, just a lot of agreement. Ian Bicking wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: [...] One issue seems to be that Python programmers are automatically allergic to domain specific glue languages like ZCML, especially when they look like XML. I think this

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-13 Thread Bill Janssen
Buggy? I don't think ZCML is buggy. Where's that coming from? Sorry, didn't mean to knock ZCML specifically. I meant to say that use of XML is inherently buggy when people have to edit it with a text editor, because of the bad syntax. I have the same gripe with the XUL used by Firefox.

Re: [Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

2005-04-09 Thread michael bayer
my own project, Myghty, is modeled after Perl's HTML::Mason, which in turn is a lot like PHP with regards to just plug it in and start writing pages. it does foster a more compentized design than PHP and also integrates nicely into whatever MVC framework the developer chooses. Myghty