@Matt You are correct. The "drupal/joomla/plone/wordpress space" does exist and it is where most people (non-developers) look first. These are the people who need to perceive django in a more positive light if the goal is to increase django market share. They are the people who hire you and I. If not, it's a moot point.
@Everyone I was not clear that I support everything Russ said, and that I am most in favor of an "Enterprise" site that sets forth standards and best practices which make apps more compatible and hence more marketable. I will die, maybe tomorrow by blunt force trauma from a bus, but I will die. There has to be a clear path for my clients when that happens. I am still eager to be involved. Thanks, Richard Shebora On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Matt Hoskins <skaffe...@googlemail.com> wrote: > <snip> >> plug and play. A manager/developer making the decisions on a platform >> for their next project should be able to download django and just plug >> in the functionality he/she needs. Dependencies will exist but that's >> normal. > <snip> >> If all that would happen django would be an easy choice for anyone, >> well absolutely for me. Without these I spent months swinging back >> and forth on various decisions because the above situation does not >> exist for django. > > The market you talk about sounds like one where things like Pinax/ > Satchmo/LFS are a substantial match for their requirements and who can > then benefit from the power of Django in extending beyond the > capabilities of what those apps provide. The drupal/joomla/plone/ > wordpress type market, perhaps? > > The kinds of applications I build in Django aren't in the style of > public-facing websites, they're web-based applications where few if > any of the facilities from Pinax, Satchmo or LFS are of any interest > to me. In fact for me one of the appeals of Django was that it didn't > try to do too much for me (i.e. it didn't quickly start to get in the > way like, say, drupal tends to once you get beyond a certain point). > > I quite like the skeleton proposal Russ sketches out in the mail you > replied to - that sounds like it would have more of a general reach > rather than trying to get into the drupal/joomla/plone/wordpress > space. > > Regards, > Matt > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
