[Seaside] About SToR

[Roger Whitney]

Others have given very good reasons not to do this: existing OR  
mapping layers, object-databases, problems with mapping complex  
objects structures to relational databases, problems with  
continuations holding objects, etc. I am not arguing against these.

But while I have been doing some web development I have not used  
Seaside for a long time :(. I have been using Django. It has a simple  
OR layer, with all the problems others have mentioned. I have to deal  
with Python, which I am not very fond of, crummy environments, poor  
IDEs, no interactive debugging, etc.  All the while wishing I was  
using Seaside. But I use Django because once I define my "object  
models" (really just simple OR mappings - talk about a mixed up  
object model) Django generates the database tables and an  
administration site to enter data and manage users, which saves time.  
For simple projects I am more than 1/2 done at this point. Most of  
the stuff I have been doing is simple enough that the problems people  
mention are not an issue.

Of course except for one project that looks like it may push the  
boundary on what is easy to do in Django. So do I rewrite the app in  
Seaside? Well at this point I have already invested time in the  
Django, is it worth switching? These frameworks take some effort to  
master. Just look at all the questions on this list about how to do X  
in Seaside. The details of Django are fresh in my head, details of  
using Seaside are not so fresh. It would take sometime to become  
proficient again partially offsetting Seaside's advantages. So as a  
result Seaside looses mind share. I think what Stephane is saying we  
should try to make it easy for people to do simple things in Seaside  
so we can gain some mind share.

On Jul 28, 2006, at 12:54 AM, stephane ducasse wrote:

>>> I was wondering if it would not make a lot of sense to have a  
>>> small framework called STOR that mimic (especially the  
>>> persistency part of RoR) in seaside and magritte.
>>> It seems to me that lot of people are doing simple application  
>>> and that the persistance is really important there.
>>> What do you think about that?
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