TurboGears 1.x to Turbogears 2.0
Two weeks ago we (Jonathan Schemoul, Thomas Zaffran and me) animated a TurboGears 2.0 presentation (in french) and workshop at PyconFR 2009. PyconFR is an annual French Python event organized by the AFPY.
The presention was separated in two phases. The first part covered an history of the project and a technical overview. The second part was a live coding session during which we created a small todolist application to show-off the new TurboGears 2.0 features.
At the end of this presentation, one of the attendees came to us and gave us a nice remark that I would like to share with you here: “I did not remark any changes in TG2 since my TG1 days, did you change something?”
This was a pleasant surprise to me. This means one thing: we changed the whole underlying layers, rewrote authentication and authorization, switched tgwidgets with ToscaWidgets, based our Framework on Pylons instead of CherryPy — and yet this person, looking at the controller’s code of our todolist application felt “at home like if it was a TurboGears 1.0 application”.
As we already stated, we want to ease-out the tg1–>tg2 transitions as much as possible. We know there is some room for improvement in that quarter! But since we (core devs) have live and running tg1 applications out there the itch is already there and we’ll make sure to scratch it.
As an example, Paris Envies is a TurboGears 1.1 application, coming from an 1.0 background, using Genshi, SQLObject and TGWidgets. And I know for sure that Jon has a real incentive to move to TG2 and get SO support for it :)
Stay tuned people, TurboGears is live and well!