On Jan 30, 8:08 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PurpleServerMonkey a écrit : > (snip) > > > Out of the major frameworks is there one that stands out as being > > particularly well suited for what I'm trying to do? > > > Django and CherryPy are on the short list so I'll give them a detailed > > look although Pylons does sound rather interesting as well. > > I guess you'll have to try them out to find the one that best match your > needs and personal preferences. Mostly: > > - CherryPy is more of a web application server than a framework per-se: > it's it's own HTTP server - which might or not be a good thing -, and > only deals with the "controler" part of the MVC triad. > > - Django is by now a mostly mature MVC framework, with more than a > couple years of production use on quite a lot of sites and applications, > good documentation and a somewhat large and active community. OTHO, it's > a very opiniated (and somewhat monolithic) framework, with most parts of > the stack (ORM, forms validation, template system etc) built > specifically for this framework (which was probably the sensible thing > to do by the time), so it's perhaps the less flexible of the three. > > - Pylons is IMHO very promising: wsgi from bottom to top, very flexible, > good default components choice (paste / Routes / SQLAlchemy / Mako / > FormEncode) but let you swap what you want in and out, and FWIW I've > seen so far a very sound architecture. FWIW, next Turbogears major > version will switch from CherryPy to Pylons. OTHO, it's still far from > being as mature and documented as Django. > > My 2 cents...
Thanks Bruno, that's just the sort of info I was after. After reading more on the subject recently I'll be installing and testing Pylons and Turbogears first, think it will be a good fit for the project and if not there's no shortage of other offerings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
