My outside impressions of Plone aren't that great. I "just got" Django, even before I'd used it. But even after installing and trying to set up a vanilla site on Plone, I didn't really understand the need for all the complexity and difficulty to extend.
I think Django has enough ready-to-go packages that we could put together, so that we don't really need a monolithic turnkey system. I think the advantages of easy customisation/development far outweigh the disadvantages of not having an instant shrink-wrapped system.
A good comparison would be SVG filters vs. Xara LX's prefabricated effects. Except that Xara's effects are actually easy to deploy & use, whereas Plone isn't always.
- Bryan
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:36, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...36...> wrote:
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:56:25 -0600 Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...36...> wrote:
+1 for Django
Thinking about it, I should just qualify my previous note a bit. As a python web app. framework I think Django is great. As a content management system (CMS) / community site system I think Plone and I suspect Drupal are more mature / feature complete. I'm using django-cms and I really like it for developing a website which looks like a "regular website", i.e. doesn't present itself as a community site with members and postings. I've used Plone for more "community driven" sites, and it's been kind of a PITA because when things don't work / need tweaking it takes forever to work out how (although I'm sure it's only a learning curve issue, no doubt Plone is very easy for Plone gurus). But it does have a full set of features and a non-tech. friendly interface.
There are django plugins for blogs / wikis / message boards etc. etc. but I don't think there's a single install turnkey system like you get with Plone (despite my not liking it) and I think Drupal (which I don't really know).
Cheers -Terry
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