Django CMS - The new CMS for Django

by jacquesm • 17 years ago

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russell• 17 years ago

There is not a lot of information on the site. I have only a cursory knowledge of Django, but the django-cms features seem to be the same as those of Django. Can anyone enlighten me to the benefits of django-cms?

jacquesm• 17 years ago

The way I understood it this integrates a number of common elements that go into makeing a CMS in to one package.

I'm searching around today to see how much of the 'drupal' functionality that we have used for the last 2 years or so can be achieved with django.

Unfortunately their wiki is down... I was hoping somebody here already has experience with this package.

erlanger• 17 years ago

Drupal's all about the hook system and modular architecture, and to recreate it in Django along with even half of the good stuff in contrib would take a very long time.

More importanly, Django will need to make progress in schema evolution to allow for easy DB upgrades between versions. This is the area where Django lacks most right now.

arthurk2• 17 years ago

Django is a web framework not a CMS. Django-cms is just an implementation of a CMS in Django.

larrykubin• 17 years ago

The features remind me of the CMS that is built in James Bennett's Practical Django Projects:

http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590599969

arthurk2• 17 years ago

The Django wiki has a nice comparison of cms apps:

http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CMSAppsComparison

colbyolson• 17 years ago

It seems that DjangoCMS covers almost all of those comparisons. I would assume this is good?

racketman4• 17 years ago

They've basically created nested flatpages and added some UI. This should be called "nested-flatpages" and distributed as an app rather than a "CMS".

andybak2• 17 years ago

It's too monolithic for my taste.

It should be taking a leaf from Django's own design book and providing some high-level CMS building-blocks. Otherwise you just end up reinventing Wordpress or Joomla. Look at Pinax* or FeinCMS for a much smarter sense of how to get Django goodness without reinventing the CMS wheel everytime.

* I know Pinax isn't a CMS - but it's tackling the hard problem of how to allow several apps by different authors to work together and integrate into the same site.

joshsharp• 17 years ago

Ah, but Pinax isn't a good solution either: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764566

Having said that, FeinCMS looks pretty nice and more modular, as you say.

andybak2• 17 years ago

Mmmm. Interesting. I wonder how much of the criticism of Pinax there is down to the specific apps and how much is down to the architectural philosophy it's trying to put in place.

On one hand Pinax guys are smart, on the other packaging/deployment/reuse are hard problems.

Here's hoping x>y!

Django CMS - The new CMS for Django

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