>From the web2py marketing department: Using anything different than web2py is a no go. Practice what you preach. Otherwise you are not credible
On Feb 5, 5:21 am, Anand Vaidya <anandvaidya...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 5, 10:44 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > Do you want me to endorse a web2py wiki make with Drupal? > > > Massimo > > Hi Massimo, > > I think should not be a problem. I am declaring the site as > unofficial until you get comfortable with it. You could probably wait > a bit longer and see how it evolves. > > My thoughts: > > * web2py is optimized for apps , Drupal is optimized for CMS. We could > implement a CMS app with w2py but I think that will be so against DRY. > > * Both are Open Source software > > * We will be wasting our time if we try to duplicate Drupal (or > Joomla) functionality with web2py. CMS is a problem that has been > solved many times (esp. in the PHP / Java world) > > * Drupal is absolutely wonderful ( at the cost of being a bit complex > to understand) has tons of themes, addon modules and a huge community > etc. > > * I have not seen a Markdown/RST based wiki / CMS that is very easy to > use AND works well/looks good . Drupal uses HTML for content and with > CKeditor JS GUI editor, it is as easy as editing a MSWord (or > OpenOffice) document > > * Many projects do host their docs "elsewhere" eg: Earlier, I had > actively used Gridsphere (http://www.gridsphere.org) - a Java Portlet > Server which used to host their docs/bugs with Atlassian Confluence / > Jira. > > My opinion is that right now, we need to get something that is very > easy to enable everyone, irrespective of their skill level to be able > to contribute. And have a functional, visually appealing docs site. > > We can always migrate to a better app on python or web2py when it is > ready for prime time. > > Do you have any specific issues with Drupal. (eg: security etc) > > Regards > anand > > > > > > > On Feb 4, 5:56 pm, Anand Vaidya <anandvaidya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Yes, Drupal CMS.http://www.drupal.org/ > > > > I don't think there is anything in Python as good and easy to use. > > > esp.for end users who are familiar with WYSISYG HTML editing but may > > > be not familiar with RST, Markdown etc. > > > > I tried MoinMoin with the RST/Markdown plugin, seems very buggy still > > > (or maybe due to the fact that I am using 1.8-plugin in Moin-1.9.1?) > > > > Regards > > > Anand > > > > On Feb 5, 7:00 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > >http://webtopy.org/community/tips-examples -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
