Blue Sky On Mars

When I first released TurboGears, I got a lot of questions about why I chose package X instead of package Y. When you’re talking about any sufficiently mature set of packages, trying to answer a question like that is an invitation to an endless discussion. I refer to that as the “emacs vs. vi” debate, since that’s the example that’s been with us for a long time. I’m all ears when one solution is demonstrably better for a task than another, but more often than not it’s a six-of-one, half-dozen-of-another sort of deal.

So, I shouldn’t be too surprised that a thread I started yesterday about a triviality would result in more than 50 messages from more than 30 people. I could’ve just flipped a coin, I guess

Update: Hey! I learned something new from this thread. I learned about bike shed painting. Neat.

Do you like Queen? No? How about 50 Cent? No? Well, then you might want to ignore Q-Unit - Greatest Hits, a nifty mashup of Queen and 50 Cent with such “Greatest Hits” as “We Will Rock You In Da Club”.

Here’s a picture of Swaroop talking about TurboGears at foss.in. You can also see his notes about this particular day at the conference and his slides.

This update brings in some of the updated projects that are included in TurboGears. The Kid update fixes a few inconvenient bugs, thanks to David Stanek.

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Project Updates

• Kid updated to 0.8.0
• MochiKit updated to 1.1
• FormEncode updated to 0.4
• setuptools updated to 0.6a8