On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Fran <francisb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 7, 10:36 pm, eric cs <eeri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm just wondering to do big e-commerce sites like
> > www.taget.com or www.bestbuy.com isn't web2py enough, or does it need
> more maturity?
>
> I imagine that a serious site like this would have a team behind it
> which may mean you wouldn't get all the benefits of Web2Py:
> * DB folks may not let you do live migrations
and you wouldn't want live migrations either - you would want to turn them
off after development, only use them on a "staged" next version site... you
would want careful deployment, different than for PyCon or other, smaller
traffic things....
But you would still have the web2py benefits, in the appropriate part of the
stage for that environment!
>
> * Web designers will need the full custom forms so will quickly move
> beyond the rapid prototyping benefits of simple {{=form}}
For something this large, this special you would want to overload, make your
own SQLForm, and support... and then you would have the same rapid
prototyping benefits, in your own preferred style... and the basics (not
extended) would still be available... the best of both worlds is possible
--- but _you_ always have to do _your_ customization; once you did, you'd
have the same "ease", if you intentionally wanted to keep this ease, and
planned on that up front.
>
> * You'll have rigorous change control on upgrades to framework so
> won't benefit from rapid codebase development
This is just nonsense - Follow anything big: Google Android development;
Google Chrome development (buildbot, changes are head-spinning!); Mozilla
Firefox build processes; etc. etc.
You would (as with Chrome, for example, which takes many open inputs - e.g.
Webkit; as does Android, from many, many source, linux not the least) simply
stage the development and incorporation of external changes, just like
anyone else does.
>
>
> Note this isn't a reason against Web2Py for such an application...just
> that it's less of a sweet spot for this framework.
There are no reasons against web2py here, other than it's being newer (e.g.
having seen less live traffic than something else), and the size of it's
developer community (which is growing, but nevertheless a consideration).
But it's less "framework" knowledge demanding and more "just python" in so
many places, that finding staff, contributors is less about finding someone
who "knows django" or "knows web2py" and much more (I think than with other
frameworks) about finding someone who knows jquery, web development, and
knows python and basics of SQL --- Everything about web2py is about little /
no new knowledge. The Form and Table things people ask question about
frequently is not because there much to know, but becuase people expect to
have to plumb things themselves work around things that they simply don't
have to with web2py (I suppose that unlearning is a kind of learning).
>
> I see no reason why it would actually be a bad idea to use this
> framework though - I imagine that you'll still be able to prototype
> quickly & deliver a fully-working system just a bit later.
Someone mentioned recently a project which they planned to have done by
years end; I suppressed my surprise. Registration and financial aid was 3-4
weeks of development for Pycon (edges, and adding details added perhaps
another month of time, but not of programming)
The key is in understanding and appropriately partitioning out, thinking
thru the big picture of what you are wanting to do, so you dont find
yourself trapped in details - details which later you discover were
unnecessary...
Being cognisant and observant of that _while_ doing rapid prototyping to
work out details of what you really want will ensure success on a big
project more than anything.
>
>
> Let us know how you get on :)
>
> F
>
> >
>
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