Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Björn Lindström) writes: >> I don't see why the things you talk about would have to be part of the >> main Python distribution. Ruby on Rails seems to do pretty well without >> being included with the core language. > > I haven't used Ruby on Rails but from the description I saw, its distro > includes everything needed, which I assume includes Ruby itself. Hm... did you read my posting before you answered? That's exactly the kind of distro I suggested that you would make. Ruby on Rails is not Ruby itself, you know. >> There's already a pretty successful programming framework for Python >> (Zope), and I don't see why people wouldn't be able to put something >> like that together to compete on more equal terms with Ruby on Rails, or >> Delphi, &c. > > I have the impression that Zope is ungodly complex, and revolves around > a weird and nonstandard database instead of having an SQL interface. That's why you would put something together "to compete on more equal terms with Ruby on Rails". > Anyway, I'm a Python user, not an evangelist. As a user I'm happy to > have Python and am thankful to its authors, even though (like anything > else) it's a long way from being perfect. But I do get annoyed by > evangelists who make unsupportable claims that the product doesn't > live up to. I made no such claims. Again, did you actually read my posting? -- Björn Lindström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Student of computational linguistics, Uppsala University, Sweden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
