I usually fall on the libraries camp when it comes to libraries vs frameworks.

So the extent to which webpy can remain a minimalistic framework that
someone can wrap around their head in a day or two, and then pick and
choose as they please, the better it will be for me.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:02 PM, tensio <[email protected]> wrote:
> First of all, I think it is great that we finally start the discussion about
> the future of web.py
>
> So let's go:
>
> PROs:
> The Simplicity: Web.py is simple to use, especially for beginners BUT for
> experts it has all the things needed to develop stuff yourself.
> Database Module: It's extremly simple to use
>
> CONs:
> Further Development: The Web changes so should web.py
>
> I would love to see:
> Memcached session module (there are some out there, we should add it to
> master)
> Google App Engine && Amazon Web Services Integration (maybe even heroku)
> (they have specific needs for saving stuff and database handling)
>
> Also I think the Templating System is quite good. But I agree with Primoz: :
> something like $endfor would make it even easier to use
> Oh and I think that the forms plugin could need some work. As custom css is
> quite hard to use (Bootstrap)
> Yannik
>
> Am Sonntag, 15. März 2015 19:06:34 UTC+1 schrieb Anand:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Before we discuss about the roadmap, I would like to hear from all of you
>> about what are the things that you like, don't like and hate about web.py.
>> Please also add your wish list of features.
>>
>> I hope that'll give us change to think and plan a better roadmap.
>>
>> Let me start with myself.
>>
>> GOOD
>>
>> * The best part of web.py it its simplicity. There are not many layers of
>> abstractions and it is very easy to understand how things work behind the
>> scene.
>> * The db module
>> * simple URL dispatching
>>
>> NOT SO GOOD
>> * The template module - i think using indentation to identify blocks was a
>> bad idea. I had trouble with it lot many times.
>>
>> BAD
>>
>> * There are not many third-party libraries to use with web.py. I would
>> like to see more such libraries.
>> * documentation - we need more documentation.
>>
>> UGLY
>> * forms - the forms library is not as elegant as it should be. Declaring
>> an object and calling to to create a copy is an ugly hack.
>> * sessions - sessions got into web.py as part of google summer of code and
>> I was never happy with its quality. Some one tried to do some improvements,
>> but think it shouldn't have come to web.py at all.
>> * development & releases - I've been very bad at maintaining and handling
>> the releases in time. Hope I'll get better at it and expecting more people
>> to contribute.
>>
>> WISH LIST
>> * Python 3 support
>> * can we do asyncio with web.py?
>>
>> Anand
>
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