On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Tim Joseph Dumol <t...@timdumol.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Tim Joseph Dumol <t...@timdumol.com> >> wrote: >> > <SNIP> >> > That's excellent. I personally favor Pylons as well, but I thought >> > Django is >> > the more popular, and thus more hackable framework at the moment. I >> > would >> > love to see his code. >> >> Indeed, I know Django, so I know how to get things done in that. But I >> don't know Pylons, so I would have to learn it first (which I am not >> opposed to). >> >> Since you know both, could you please tell me the advantages of pylons >> over django? I browsed through the pylons tutorials and documentation >> and it seems to me it's just another framework, so one can do the same >> things as in django, just differently, so that's annoying. Maybe there >> is some conceptual difference? >> > > Django is designed to be a monolithic framework -- the ORM, templating > system, url routing, authentication, etc. are all from Django. Pylons is > designed to be highly modular -- the ORM can be any of SQLObject, > SQLAlchemy, or any other ORM you want, and the same goes for the rest. This > makes it much easier to switch backends, templating systems, etc. It also > makes moving out of the framework easier -- although that doesn't seem to be > much of a problem. > > Also, Pylons based its MVC paradigm on Rails, while Django has an MTV > (Model-Template-Controller) paradigm. > > Django was originally designed to be run from `mod_python`, while Pylons was > designed from the ground up to run on WSGI. This means that it is much > simpler to use WSGI middleware. Django, on the other hand, has its own > non-standard middleware system. > > Pylons has pluggable solutions to Django's monolithic packages -- AuthKit > for authentication, Jinja2/Mako/Genshi/... for templating, etc. > > That's as far as I can get from the top of my head. >
You just made Pylons sound (to me) better in every possible way to Django! -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
