[ckan-dev] Bye bye Pylons, hello Flask

[David Miller]

Hi Adria,

Best of luck to you and Brook !

Haven't had time to get into all of the details, but skim-reading the wiki
page it seems like a well considered and excellent document  :)

I look forward to updating my extensions....

David

On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 at 18:06 Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Some of you might be aware that work has started to migrate the
> current web framework that CKAN uses (Pylons) to a more modern (and
> supported) alternative. After much discussion and weighing of the
> options the choice was made to migrate to Flask.
>
> As you can imagine, this is not going to be an easy task :)
>
> CKAN has grown into a very big project, accumulating a certain amount
> of technical debt on the way. Moreover, one of the main features of
> CKAN is its extensibility via plugins, which adds another layer of
> complexity. But it is a step that needs to be made to enable CKAN to
> evolve and to make easier for developers to contribute.
>
> My colleague Brook and I have been working on several proof of
> concepts around this migration and have written down our findings and
> plan on this wiki page:
>
> https://github.com/ckan/ckan/wiki/Migration-from-Pylons-to-Flask
>
> It also includes FAQs, description of the general approach and
> implementation details, and we will update it regularly to keep track
> of our progress.
>
> It's a long read but if you have previous experience with Flask,
> migrating of big code bases or just want to keep informed of how this
> might affect your CKAN instance or extension please have a look and
> feel free to ask **any** question you have or provide any feedback.
> I've created an issue on the repo to make easier to discuss things:
>
> https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues/3119
>
>
> And of course if you want to help in any way that would be also very
> welcome.
>
> I'm sure that at the end we will have a better CKAN with many
> opportunities ahead.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adrià
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