[mod_python] Re: bbs written in python?

Daniel Nogradi nogradi at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 06:42:07 EST 2006


> > I looked around there already but they are all - as the name suggests
> > - blog software as opposed to bullletin boards or forum software. And
> > yes, there are a number of wikis written in Python, but it seems that
> > specifically bulletin boards and/or forums are not written yet. There
> > are many in PHP and a couple in Ruby I wonder why there is
> > (practically) none for Python.
>
> My guess: Because there are only few web hosting providers offering
> Python as a server-side scripting option. Most will offer PHP, so that's
> the largest audience.

This looks to me like a chicken-or-egg problem. For providers to offer
Python there should exist good software, in order to have good
software providers should offer Python :)



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