[py3porters-devel] Pylons and snapshot.debian.org

[Johannes]

+1 for flask. Django seems to much overhead.

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Johannes

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---- Matt Singleton schrieb ----

>Cool, that was my assessment as well.
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>I got some responses on the debian-snapshot list. They seem happy to have us do this work however we see fit, but they suggested that Pyramid isn't really used elsewhere in Debian and that Flask or Django are the preferred web frameworks.
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>For a project like this, I'd say that Flask is probably the better fit. Its pluggable design is a lot closer to Pylons and will probably let us re-use a lot more code. If we went with Django, we'd have extra work porting templates and DB code into its templating and ORM languages. My experience with Django is all pre-1.0, though, so if it's become more modular since then, my argument could be moot.
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>Matt
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>> On Apr 18, 2015, at 4:34 PM, Justin A Ryan <bitmonk at icloud.com> wrote:
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>> As I suspected, the guts of the actual archive is mostly dynamic routes.  It looks like a simple app, obviously if original authors / past maintainers want to help, that would be awesome.
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>>> On Apr 18, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Matt Singleton <matt at xcolour.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm digging around the code a bit here: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/mirror/snapshot.debian.org.git/
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>>> Don't see anything in the bug tracker about moving away from Pylons. I'm going to reach out to the maintainer(s) to see how they'd like to be involved in the project.
>>> 
>>> Matt
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 18, 2015, at 2:03 PM, Justin A Ryan <bitmonk at icloud.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I’m familiar with Pyramid (formerly Zope) and would be willing to look into this.
>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 18, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Matt Singleton <matt at xcolour.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Looking through the lovely SVG, I noticed that snapshot.debian.org metapackage relies on Pylons, which seems really unlikely to get a py3 port given that it's in maintenance mode and all the active development is happening on Pyramid now.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I wonder if the snapshot maintainers already have any plans underway to migrate to a maintained web framework? I've worked with Pylons before, but I've never done a Pyramid migration. My understanding is that it amounts more or less to a rewrite.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Matt
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