On Apr 8, 7:50 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Duncan Booth wrote: > > Google have announced a new service called 'Google App Engine' which may > > be of interest to some of the people here > > OK, now we need a compatibility layer so you can move apps from > Google App Engine to your own servers. You don't want to be locked > into a single vendor solution, especially when they reserve the right > to start charging. > > Their data store uses a subset of SQL, so it's probably possible > to write a conversion layer allowing use of MySQL. > > John Nagle
It supports Django, and more importantly, WSGI, so any 'framework' you build on top of it should transfer out. Heck, you have a stand-alone python script that comes with the developer kit for hosting your apps on YOUR computer that you could port to use YOUR database and be done with it. Write your own ORM or just some decent OO code for handling data access so the database access layer can be swapped out and you are golden. I really doubt getting away from the Googe App Engine is going to be too terribly difficult for any intermediate Python programmer, assuming good up-front application design. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
