[csw-maintainers] A place for other project-related code

[Mike Watters]

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Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
>> here's the problem with custom fancy web-framework-du-jour stuff.
>> It's popular today. but out of fashion tomorrow.
>> A very small subset of people understand all of it today, and
>> almost no-one will, in 2 years.
> 
> If we reason by induction, Django existed since 2003 and is open
> source since 2005. Its user base is rapidly growing, I doubt that 2 or
> even 5 years is enough for it to fade to the state of almost no-one
> understanding it. 10 years, maybe.
> 
>> You just have to write it in something that's going to be comprehensible
>> for the next 5 years.
>> So, PHP, or Perl.
>> [MAYBE python, if you really really have to :-) but strong preference is
>> perl or php.]
> 
> I would stick with Python, I'm afraid. There aren't comparably good
> frameworks in PHP. CakePHP, maybe. But it's got fairly small user
> base, I think it could potentially fall within the "gone in 2 years"
> category.
> 
>>> I'll be happy to get involved. If you tell me what kind of stuff you
>>> would like the application to do, tell me, and I'll write a proof of
>>> concept.
>> That's kind of backwards. The more usual flow is,
>> "write it how YOU would like the application to perform, and then be
>>  prepared to take lots of criticism on it" ;-)
> 
> William sounded like he had some ideas, I was curious what they were.
> 
> Maciej
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I have played around with TurboGears on Fedora's FAS and pkgdb systems.
I have a small understanding of that,  if you decide Django, I would love
to get involved to learn that framework.



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Thanks,
Mike

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent.  It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage --
to move in the opposite direction."

* Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
    US German-born Theoretical Physicist
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