There are also big drawbacks to these cms's for example the sucurity
flaws in Joomla are out of this world. Same with drupal, so many
plugins, add-ons and other what not with wholes in them it's sometimes
very hard to keep up with the issues.
I work on drupal based sites all the time and run into big issues when
we need to work in groups. When our personal environments are setup to
develop on, we can't post much of our data to the version control that
we share. Infact, on a recent project I have to copy paste code from a
real editor to the block editor in drupal. That data is saved to my
database and is not in sync with everyone else who also just made a
different addition to their database. We spend half a day showing what
we did for the blocks and figuring out how to make all our code work
together. In web2py this is much more rare.
Drupal can also, very easily, but much heavier on the database. And you
need to figure out your own DAL tools instead of having one right away.
And the installation process is easier, at least to me, in Web2py.
On the other hand, drupal has features that let you start working with
editing content right away and that can be nice, but due just a little
bit of theme editing and your swimming in deep directories trying to and
trying to place content much more than you would in web2py.
At my work, which accepts most projects very easily, turn away from
Joomla. It's not a tool we want to use, ever.
My 2 cents,
Jason
On 06/13/2012 12:21 AM, Arthur P. wrote:
Maybe also look at the post: Instant press 2.1.0 holiday edition
Having installed my first CMS using Joomla, my albums using Gallery2,
and having more recently used Drupal, I think most if not all Python
based CMS's are still very much "programmer's products", have not yet
reached the plug and play level of Joomla. Web2Py as framework
certainly seems the easiest to install and to get something up and
running with, but I have the feeling I will have to do a bit more
reading than with Joomla, and even than Drupal even though that does
have a bit more of a learning curve, before I understand how to get
the current basic CMS solutions to approach the capabilities of a
Drupal or Joomla christmas tree filled with modules and plug-ins.
On Friday, May 25, 2012 5:54:54 AM UTC+2, Andrew wrote:
There have been numerous posts on a web2py based cms, and I know
there are many solutions out there, at varying stages of
development. They each have a different focus so it is not a
simple question of "which one is best". I won't try and mention
them by name.
However, A colleague of mine was talking about Joomla and I
wanted to be able to offer some "strategy" on a comparable web2py
cms. Would anyone care to comment on which of the web2py cms'
would be a contender to Joomla ? If not now, perhaps with a
roadmap for the future.
Personally, and I've said it before, cms functionality is very
important, and I think we should highlight the cms offerings on
the web2py website. Not necessarily one, but showcase the "best
of ...". For example, look at
http://www.zope.org/the-world-of-zope
<http://www.zope.org/the-world-of-zope> It mentions Plone and
Silva. Such a thing would also strenghten the adopton of web2py.
Are they production ready enough to do that ?
Thankyou.
Andrew W
