Turbogears downgraded on fas servers

[Athmane Madjoudj]

On 01/09/2011 10:20 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 09:24:37PM +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
>> On 01/09/2011 08:04 PM, seth vidal wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 10:21 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
> I would say yes.  TurboGears1.0 and 1.1 are basically CherryPy2 + (SQLObject
> or SQLAlchemy) + (Kid or genshi).
>
> TurboGears-1.5 is CherryPy3 + SQLAlchemy + genshi.
>
> TurboGears2 is Pylons + SQLAlchemy + genshi
>
> By building on top of TG we get a little bit of abstraction from the
> underlying layers (for instance, we could go with kid on all of those
> frameworks even though it's not the default.  Same with SQLObject, at least
> for the TG-1.x's).  We also get some niceties (like setup of some of the
> components done for us).
>
> If we built out own framework on top of the same underlying components
> I think we'd just end up reinventing a lot of TurboGears code and still
> having to deal with upstream version change... just at the level of
> upgrading from CherryPy2 to CherryPy3 or kid to genshi instead of at the
> level of TurboGears.
>
> -Toshio
>

There's some attempts (like GearShift[1]) to make a branch (or fork) of 
TG-1.x after the move of TG-2.x to Pylons for Controllers


[1] http://code.google.com/p/python-gearshift/

-- 
Athmane Madjoudj