Joshua, 1st thing 1st: I am not a Django developer. I do contribute some code.
Personally I don't have Oracle on my desktop but I have WinXP => I have "free" IIS and "free" MSSQL. Whether we like it or not majority of small guys out there are running MS Windows of some sort. Why not give them a choice? >From my personal experience I can tell you that I had less grief with IIS + MSSQL than with Apache + MySQL provided by DreamHost. Just to mention a few: I still cannot serve my pages gzipped because time to time they lose "Content-Encoding: gzip" somewhere in WSGI + FastCGI + Apache guts and blog readers see garbage on their screens. This year (!) I celebrated news that MySQL allows to do subqueries (http://blog.milesbarr.com/2005/03/). Yay! Maybe next year DreamHost will install InnoDB support and I can do *drumroll* transactions! Believe me, it is going to be easy to write MSSQL backend. And I know what I am saying --- I rewrote MySQL backend dealing with all gory details (see them here: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/463). If we support MySQL, we can support MSSQL without problems. I don't understand why "supporting IIS seems a little insane" --- AFAIK, IIS can run FastCGI. You don't need to have any special support from Django side. You have to configure FastCGI properly. That's what I meant when I wrote "some efforts should be invested in setup process for IIS". Thanks, Eugene "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Eugene Lazutkin wrote: > >>I did some research on it and it is possible. Some additional code needed: >>ODBC/OLEDB/MSSQL database backend for Django. Some efforts should be >>invested in setup process for IIS. I was planning to do it in a month or >>so. >> > Just to throw in my two cents here. I know that the goal is to make Django > as available to users > as possible. However, supporting IIS seems a little insane. > > Also it would seem a shame to devote any resources to support MSSQL. Those > resources would > better be served supporting PostgreSQL or **gasp** Oracle. > > There are way too many projects out there that try to be good at lots of > things without being > good at any of them. Pick a few core technologies make them rock and roll, > because of that you > will get the user base you want. > >> >>"Adrian Holovaty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>On 9/26/05, cybermalandro cybermalandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to run Django in a winblows environment with IIS 6.0 ? if >>> so >>>how reliable would this be? is there any ODBC support on Django? >>> >> >>I've never used IIS, so I have no idea. Anybody else know? >> >>There's no ODBC support in Django, but we'd love to add it. >> >>Adrian >> >>-- >>Adrian Holovaty >>holovaty.com | djangoproject.com | chicagocrime.org >> >> >> > > > -- > Your PostgreSQL solutions company - Command Prompt, Inc. 1.800.492.2240 > PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Programming, 24x7 support > Managed Services, Shared and Dedicated Hosting > Co-Authors: plPHP, plPerlNG - http://www.commandprompt.com/ > >
