Is what I want to achieve in powerpack, but now I'm reworking it in boilerplate https://bitbucket.org/mulonemartin/web2pyboilerplate/src . Nic you are right, web2py fit perfect for starter or as education platform, althought myself I use to teach some web programming to others. But in the next level is another thing, when the applications grows, nobody is pointing you, you are at your own.. well I think you have to do "python". What is python is OO programming lang, and the big points are classes and import. The models are great but you have to be carefull when you are working in a big application or a complicated logic, because you can polute the namespace or make it unnecesary slow. A few people know, that now you can do: from mymodule import myclass or from plugins.myplugin.mymodule import anything in web2py. And yes we need a plugin system, and I'm not talking about the PluginManager in web2py that do almost nothing, we need an standart or base class, that you can make myplugin = MyPlugin(), myplugin.install(), myplugin.uninstall(), pluginmanager.add(myplugin), myplugin = pluginmanager.plugins('myplugin') etc. You have my +1, and my help.
2011/7/13 nic <nicbythe...@gmail.com>: > Dear friends, > > I am a huge web2py fan and would like to propose an idea to the > community. > > I understand that web2py is a development environment and has it’s > roots as an educational platform. One of the things that I have > personally found most useful are the free appliances. However as > web2py has matured over time a lot of these have become dated and as > new developments have emerged I have often been confused about best > practices going forward. > > I would like to propose that we develop a suite of products (open > source of course) based on the best practices of web2py that would be: > > Useful and usable by non-programmers > Serve as a focal point for the community on just how great web2py > could be > Serve as a template for developers > > To be clear the idea is to create a separate project from web2py > itself and then find the best of breed products and develop them in > web2py. Things like: > > A Wiki / Blog / CMS / Forum > An Online Store > A Personal Accounting System > A Media Center > etc ... > > The focus would be on producing complete usable and beautiful > applications. > > I feel that the creation of a separate project will have some > important advantages such as: > > We can create a “brand” around the products. > It will not “hijack” the core web2py focus. > Can have separate focus such as functionality and look and feel > Can include complimentary, tested projects such as open source icons > and skins > Can have it’s own development cycle, (eg release every 6 months) > Can have it’s own repositories etc. > > Ultimately the products could be made available by web hosts just by > the click of a button just like the php ones are now. > > I am very interested in the thoughts of the community and if there is > interest I will move to the next step and create a site (probably on > GAE) for further discussion such as: > > decide on a name > decide on goals > decide on processes > find a home > decide on products > etc ... -- http://martin.tecnodoc.com.ar
