Checking & Sharing

A fellow developer was teasing me about my involvement with TurboGears,because we have had discussions in the past about webframeworks of which I always have been quite sceptic about. All our discussions tend to degenerate into a Emacs vs. Vi war, but that’s another story.
Vim rules btw. =)

I tried to explain him that TG is not a framework but a Megaframework.
Hu?. That didn’t helped much.
Later I have been thinking that the best way to explain TG’s approach is to compare it to your regular linux or BSD distribution.

There are a lot of distros out there, each with it’s own profile or raison d’être.
Desktop, web servers , file servers, embedded systems, highly secure system, gaming machines, handheld devices, development environments, etc.
A successful distribution manage to choose and glue seamlessly the best components available to leverage the distro’s main vision.
If a key component is missing or one of the chosen components doesn’t live up to the standards, the distro will sponsor those projects
financially or by contributing code, sparring or support.
But the distro’s main proposition is to deliver a cohesive experience relaying on best of breed projects.

Seen it in that light, TurboGears is kind of a ‘Web Application Development System Distribution’.
The Ubuntu of webframeworks =)

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