[NCUC E-team] VPS

[Avri Doria]

ok, it looks like we have considered django.

avri

On 22 Jan 2013, at 15:39, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:32:32PM +0300, Wilson Abigaba (wilson at isoc.ug) wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday, January 22, 2013, Avri Doria wrote:
> 
>>> If we are going the proper design and implement route, I suggest we look
>>> at Django framework as the basic tool.
> 
>> I wouldn't go for django for our web platform. Yes, the framework is solid
>> but it's not widely adopted by web developers and hence they are a few
>> contributors and ready modules.
> 
> As it happens, I just today spent a couple of hours helping a couple
> of django developers recover a disastrously corrupted application,
> and they kept talking about how incredibly complicated it is.
> And the application was rather simple from what I could tell.
> 
>> I wouldn't want to spend a few hours creating a social media plugin
>> or RSS feed yet in wordpress/drupal they are plug and play.
> 
> Yes. If we were doing "something completely different",
> django might make sense, but most of what we want is
> indeed readily available in other platforms.
> 
> -- 
> Tapani Tarvainen
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