More 'About Storm'

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hello Mark,

> Thanks for the quick response.   Fundamentally the problem is your
> opening line to the list which claims that those are the things which
> make Storm different from other projects -- and I don't think that's
> what the list is for.

This line has been removed when posting on the site, and features
were added under a "Highlights" topic.  Some other features were
added as well.


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> Even more strange it seems that Storm does not have all of them. (Was
> it really designed from day one oracle support, considering you don't
> list oracle support as a feature now?)

It doesn't have it right now indeed, but it was *designed* for it,
which is what it says.  I don't really mind removing that entry
from the sentence, if it makes it clearer.

While we're on the topic, someone told me here at EuroPython that
they're already working on the backend for Oracle (yay!).  If he
doesn't, and someone is interest on it, I can easily provide one
as well.


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> If you're telling me why Storm is different (and that's something I
> really want to know!) I think you should actually focus on things that
> are different, and this list ain't it.

I've been asked this question an AMAZING number of times in the last
few days.  We focus on things we belive are valuable on a good ORM.
If you belive that you have all of the features mentioned, and is
happy with the ORM you're using, our opinion about uniqueness doesn't
make the minor difference.


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> You can list features you have without saying that other ORM's don't
> have them.  Or you can list features that make you different, but

You said the same thing a thousand times.  I think everyone got
your point already.  I have a friendly relationship with Mike Bayer
(or at least I thought I did before he flamed me in a comment in
reedit :-), so keep cool, alright?

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net