[mod_python] mod_python bake-off?

Michael C. Neel wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 16:52, Nic Ferrier wrote:
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>>Robert Sanderson <azaroth at liverpool.ac.uk> writes:
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>>>What's the point of an HTML authoring competition that happens to use 
>>>Python to generate the pages?
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>>It's not a competition. It's an exhibition.
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>I think it's a good idea, no matter what you call it ;)
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>So what do we want?  So far it is an app that runs under mod_python, and
>should require a data store.  If we are going to measure preformance,
>then the data store needs to be defined; otherwise the guy who uses dbm
>files is at a loss to the guy who uses MySQL.  I think preformance is
>important, and also SQL interaction (after all, how many apps are you
>working on for customers using dbm files as the main data store?).
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>Now, at the risk of getting the thread off topic and into a flame war,
>I'm going to say that we should state it uses MySQL and also provide the
>database as well.  The app shouldn't need any advanced database
>features, this wouldn't be showing off the framework anyway.  Also, if
>this gets some steam, someone might be able to convince sourceforge to
>host the results of the bake off, and they use MySQL.
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One of the main advantages of jToolkit (our framework) is that is 
designed for building applications that are portable between different 
databases. I don't see why you need to specify MySQL as the database. 
You could specify that it needs to be a relational database.

David