pecan/pecan — Issue #24: Ideas and Feedback From DreamHost
Author: cleverdevil
Created: 2011-10-27 15:37:39+00:00
State: open

Yesterday, I presented Pecan to the development and admin teams at DreamHost, and received some feedback. For the most part, people loved the framework. I had a few pieces of feedback, in particular, from @tv (on twitter).

Take this for what its worth, just as constructive criticism. I'd love to hear feedback from the rest of the Pecan team on this.

# He's not a fan of the "pecan" command line tool, since it smells too much like Django's manage.py.
# He doesn't like having global state singletons like request/response, and would prefer to have them passed around somehow, or accessed an alternative way. He thinks its a bit too magical.
# He complained that there isn't enough documentation surrounding how to implement and mash together more than one application into a cohesive experience. This is something Pyramid is supposed to be good at. I know we did it at Pictage/ShootQ, and it would be helpful if we offered up some recipes in the documentation.
# He suggested splitting up things into smaller packages (object dispatch, JSON, hooks, etc.).

Just some food for thought. Not sure I agree with any or all of it, but its valuable to hear what people have to say.