Comments on: A day after TurboGears’ release

By: Kevin Dangoor

Kevin Dangoor — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:26:39 +0000

Sorry to hear that you had trouble getting the program (I assume you mean the Toolbox?) running. Did you try to mailing list? That’s usually the best place for help.

I’ve never used the RPM personally… it may be worth adding a note to the docs:

http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/TgAdmin

I assume the command is actually tg-admin toolbox -c ::ffff:127.0.0.1

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:04:21 +0000

How about a 20 minute video on how to launch the TG program after you’ve installed the rpm? After two days of beating my head against the wall and some googling, I discovered the

tg-admin -c ::ffff:127.0.0.1

trick. Geesh. I don’t care how cool it is, if thats what I have to do to load it 20 times a day it’s going to get real old, real fast.

By: tazzzzz

tazzzzz — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:40:35 +0000

While I can see the argument for “metaframework”, I chose “megaframework” to reflect the frontend-to-backend all-inclusive nature of it. I don’t think “meta” captures that as well.

Glad you like TurboGears!

By: fpillet

fpillet — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:07:53 +0000

“Metaframework” would be a more accurate name for TurboGears, as it wraps several existing frameworks. It’s the same rationale than for Apple’s Metapackages which are aggregates of several installation packages.

BTW TurboGears is *very* cool.

By: tazzzzz

tazzzzz — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:49:18 +0000

Oh, and I didn’t mean to skip over Jay’s comment above. I do agree that having more than one really good choice is better than having a couple of crappy choices.

And I’m glad you think TurboGears is really cool looking!

By: tazzzzz

tazzzzz — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:46:12 +0000

I did come across tada for the first time a few days ago. It looks neat, but I’m ultimately really turned off by the “callbacks everywhere” style of programming. I’ve gathered that the new Python 2.5 features may be able to alleviate that, and I would happily take another look.

By: Robert Kern

Robert Kern — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:18:56 +0000

Re: Twisted and SQLObject
You may want to look at tada, which wraps an DB-API2 backend with an asynchronous layer. It has an SQLObject-ish ORM, too.

http://www.linuxgames.co.za/projects/tada/

I’ve never used it myself, but it’s something to look at.

By: Jay P

Jay P — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 04:08:23 +0000

You guys keep making this so hard on me! I finally decide that it’s time for me to learn how to create web apps, and settle on Django as I’m a long time Python guy.

Then you create a brand new really cool-looking framework, creating new indecision for me!

Oh well, I guess having to choose between really cool options is the kind of problem I can deal with.