On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps when developers need a CMS, they tend to go with one of the > big, popular, well-refined ones, like Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, etc. > Frameworks like web2py may be seen as more useful for custom > applications that cannot be implemented via a standard CMS -- there > may be little motivation to reinvent the CMS wheel with web2py when > there are already so many CMS'es out there. Well, I was thinking that it's logical and easier to implement specific custom applications in the same framework in which there is e.g. bigger part of the site, than combining and gluing together stuff from several frameworks or even using different languages. > This is not unique to web2py -- I don't think the other Python > frameworks have well developed CMS'es either (except Plone, based on > Zope). Plone is bloated and it wants lot of hardware... > Django and Rails each have a couple CMS'es, but even they pale in > comparison to the various PHP-based CMS'es when it comes to popularity > and ecosystem. Don't know about RoR, but there are several decent CMS-es written and Django and having only one such in web2py, would be good-enough for us. Sure, PHP CMS are really polished, but we want to contribute to the 'movement' of leaving pHP for web development. :-) > That doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't have at least a basic > web2py-based CMS, but it may be unrealistic to expect something as > comprehensive and polished as Joomla any time soon (even Django and > Rails don't really have that). Developing and maintaining a CMS like > that is probably as much work as developing and maintaining the > framework itself (maybe more), so it's not likely to arise as a mere > side project of a few community members -- it needs its own full, > dedicated developer core and active community. Thank you very much for your input...it would be better if I would ask this question a little bit earlier. :-) In one sense, I'm a little sad for leaving web2py, but should not be attached 'cause one has to use right tool for the job. All the best to web2py project! Sincerely, Gour -- A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego — he alone can attain real peace. http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810
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