TurboGears article on IBM Developer Works
July 11th, 2006 by Mark Ramm
There’s a brand new article on TurboGears available on Developer Works. It looks like a great article, with an interesting comparison between Django and TurboGears.
This just highlights something I’ve been saying: diversity is a good thing in the Python web programming world, as long as the choices are all reasonably good (you won’t be screwed if you make the “wrong” choice), and the trade-off’s are made clear up front. Rather than say there are too many web frameworks, we ought to:
- Admit that some of them aren’t maintained anymore, or are otherwise not viable options for new projects.
- Write good documentation, including good comparisons between them — so that it is easy to see which one framework best fits your needs and style.
Usable error feedback is still nonexistent in TG: use malformed XML or typo a variable and you still get raw tracebacks. For this reason, it’s hard to recommend TG to a group that isn’t intimately familiar with python, let alone TG internals.
Chuck,
The error feedback story in TurboGears could use some work, but things are getting better. I expect things like Eval Exception to come to TurboGears in the next major release (whenever that is…)
But I don’t really think it’s as terrible as you make it sound.
Usually the tracebacks make sense and point to the right place. And anybody who’s done programming for more than a few weeks has probably learned how to handle traceback data in a moderately sane way.