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

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

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