[Chicago] help from Django and Pylons developers

[Ian Bicking]

Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>   An example of the first would be a database configuration parameter 
>> (which
>> web2py embeds in the source, which frankly gives it a scrappy PHP feel
>> with regard to configuration).
> 
> Not sure what you mean. web2py you specify a connection string in the 
> application configuration (in my examples I do in the model files) 
> because every app has its own databases. It is not in the controllers or 
> in the views (which PHP mix up).

I only noticed it in the examples you did -- if that's just a shorthand 
you used for doing live examples, but there's a clearer way to set up 
that configuration, then that's fine I guess.  The norm in PHP is, I 
think, to have every page include some file and that file contains 
variable assignments which make up the configuration.  As such the 
difference between code and configuration is blurred.

So, if web2py has application configuration, is the real distinction 
between that and Pylons just that applications start with a kind of null 
configuration that is enough for it to work?  Pylons technically doesn't 
need any configuration parameters for a basic application to run, but it 
does need a configuration file to refer to the application you are 
running.  That configuration file itself is, in this basic state, kind 
of equivalent to the web-based setup of applications in web2py.

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