For me, Drupal is anti-developers. Indeed, it is very hard to balance a platform to be friendly both to users and to developers, and IMHO, Drupal is decent but doesn't do great on anything (ease of use, ease of development, scalability, etc...).
Drupal has many more third-party modules. But those modules are very opinionated and some are of poor quality, even when you would expect otherwise (I've had problems configuring the I18N module, and I couldn't do it to behave reasonably ... making a Drupal website multi-language is a pain). Development in Django is a lot easier, because the modules are more generic and the development process is more predictable because of its simpler architecture. This is not easy to demonstrate though. The best thing you could do is to take some time to learn some Drupal development (there's a book Pro Drupal Development on Amazon) ... and then do a comparison between the two by implementing a feature, measuring the lines of code written, going through the problems you had, etc ... Another thing you could do is to implement your own CMS in Django that has most of the features managers are looking for ... most people will not say no to something that's already implemented. If they still have troubles deciding, then do a scalability test. On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 6:44 PM, shacker <shac...@birdhouse.org> wrote: > > At the university where I work, there is a LOT of momentum behind > Drupal. A large and active users group, and dozens of departmental > sites running it. I've succeeded in building a few departmental sites > with Django but still feel like it's an uphill battle convincing > managers to agree to go with a relative unknown, both in terms of > language (Python) and platform. Things like the announcement that > whitehouse.gov switched to Drupal just cement the deal in many > managers' minds. -- Alexandru, Nedelcu http://alexn.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
