Let me also be blunt. Your message started with a serious but constructive criticism of web2py and then degenerated into a whining post for including your own favorite database. If that's the only feature you seek in web2py, download the source code and have at it.
What a disappointing finish. On Jul 17, 12:34 am, Bottiger <bottig...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Finally, this community has to do a better job at outreach. You should > > talk to your friends and blog about web2py. You must talk about the > applications you build with it. We do not lack developers. We lack > salesmen. > > I apologize in advance for being blunt. > > I thought about writing about Web2Py on my blog, but what can I say? > That everything is a little different but slightly better than Django? > They aren't going to believe me, and it will get ignored and downvoted > just like the recent Reddit stories. A simple search for web2py on > Reddit shows many stories with heavy downvotes and people simply not > interested that there is a Django or Pylons clone, when Django and > Pylons do just fine. > > The problem with Web2Py is that it does not have a niche. Right now, > Django is occupying the same niche. As the first-comer, it has the > advantage that people already know how to use it. Until Web2Py manages > to have a benefit greater than its own learning curve, Web2Py will > continue to sit in second place. > > If it has something that no one else does (a feature), then you will > be justified in bragging about it, and the detractors will not be > justified in denouncing it. This is not to say that we should have > every feature possible; only that we need ones that set Web2Py apart. > > As for which feature we should include, I currently have 1 in mind > that will set it apart from the others: > > First class support for a free distributed database. > > The reason is simple. There is a need for a scalable database that > does not rely on Google or Amazon. By focusing on the needs of > ambitious projects, you will increase the likelihood of getting free > press that matters: from big flashy projects. Instead, right now the > ecosystem consists mostly of hobby projects on the GAE and internal > websites. This is probably not the only killer improvement that Web2Py > can make, but its the one the personally interests me the most. > > (P.S. Massimo, I believe you've received my synopsis on supporting > MongoDB before CouchDB). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
