Django 1.0 -- would someone from Google please respond

[Michael Angerman]

If this group has already got an official announcement that the next version of appengine
will have Django 1.0 inside it, so we don't have to upload it with our app,

Just tell me its official and point me to the email or blog posting where it has been announced,
if it hasn't been announced yet then here goes my flame.

There are lots of developers out there in the community who would like to know the answer
to this question, because it impacts them on whether or not to release their new app or lets say
wait for another week or two.

This is exactly the type of communication that is lacking from Google's management -- and why
their has been a thread recently on why people are disappointed in the lack of information from Google.

I think appengine is a great product, really amazing, and I think all of the other Google products are great
too, so I am big huge fan of Google, but why are they letting the developer community down by not supplying
them with information in a timely fashion that impacts developers decisions.

This information that I am asking for is extremely basic and others have asked the same question in recent days.

So I could go on here, but Google management !  surprise us for once and just answer the question definitively.
I am not expecting to have an answer like it will happen next week.  But just give the developer community a
general sense that yes it will happen in the next month or so, or not, that is sort of OK too, but keeping the
community abreast on what is going on is really the point here.

Thanks for you continued support,

Michael I Angerman
Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.zrato.com

[Paul]

Hi Michael,

While we'd like to support Django 1.0 be default in App Engine its
going to be a little while before we'll have that support. We are
currently working on some larger features that require the team's
resources. For the time being we suggest you include it in the app you
are uploading to App Engine. Below is a link to a thread that discuss
getting Django 1.0 working with App Engine.

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/edaa3f36ebef201f/a0935973b63b9e34?lnk=gst&q=Using+django+1.0#a0935973b63b9e34

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Paul - Product Manager, App Engine

[Noah Gift]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Paul <Paul.M...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> While we'd like to support Django 1.0 be default in App Engine its
> going to be a little while before we'll have that support.

Paul,

I would like to point out that there is also very heavy demand for
other web frameworks in addition to Django. Currently appengine comes
bundled with WebOb, which is a core library that Turbogears 2.0 and
Pylons use. There is a substantial base of professional software
developers all of the world that would love to have Django as well as
WebOb derived frameworks bundled. Personally, I think it would be a
great service to the Python community to natively include these
frameworks with appengine if Django is included, or at least ensure
that their components work such as Genshi or Mako templating by
default.

Thanks again for the communication!

--
Noah Gift
http://noahgift.com

[Michael Angerman]

Paul,

Thanks very much for answering my question,
I really appreciate it and I am sure many others do as well.

Thanks again,

Michael I Angerman
Albuquerque, New Mexico
http://www.zrato.com