Hi John, On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:42 PM, johnP <[email protected]> wrote: > Waldemar, > > First - thank you for your efforts. > > I just wanted to know your advice. We built an application based on > Appengine Patch that's gaining momentum. There is an installed user > base that we need to support going forward. The main features of > Appengine Patch that I'm using are sessions, Django authentication > (User Modules) and Modelform > > I'm OK with using Google-style Models. If required - can port > ModelForms to Forms easily. So what's left is Sessions and Auth. > > So far, everything works fine. My main worry is that someday, changes > to Appengine may break my installed AEP. > > The question, more specifically, is: what kinds of suggestions would > you make to a person in my position: Using AEP; have lots of users > based on the AEP User models; and wanting to have the flexibility to > move forward as a part of a dynamic and supported framework? There > are no problems at this moment. But wanted to hear your advice for > going forward.
Well, the code is open-source, so you could fix AEP yourself or even maintain the port yourself (should be easy enough, at least with your requirements). Alternatively, you could port your code to one of the GAE-only frameworks like Kay (which is most similar to Django) or a GAE-independent framework like web2py. Finally, you could help with finishing the native Django port. Kay is basically a one-man show, so at least from today's perspective you could end up in the same situation as with AEP. Maybe web2py is a better option, but that requires a bigger porting effort on your side. I'd of course prefer that a few people help with the native Django port and after that help to solve the really important cloud computing complexities. Just imagine what you could achieve with automatic denormalization: http://code.google.com/p/django-denorm/ And we could go far beyond that. The native Django port is only one small step on the roadmap. But we need contributors if we want to get there. Bye, Waldemar Kornewald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "app-engine-patch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/app-engine-patch?hl=en.
