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diff --git a/docs/faq.txt b/docs/faq.txt index 1f9c3e8cc7..26ec3141ce 100644 --- a/docs/faq.txt +++ b/docs/faq.txt @@ -126,6 +126,23 @@ developed precisely because we were unhappy with the status quo, so please be aware that "because <Framework X>" does it is not going to be sufficient reason to add a given feature to Django. +Why did you write all of Django from scratch, instead of using other Python libraries? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +When Django was originally written a couple of years ago, Adrian and Simon +spent quite a bit of time exploring the various Python Web frameworks +available. + +In our opinion, none of them were completely up to snuff. + +We're picky. You might even call us perfectionists. (With deadlines.) + +Over time, we stumbled across open-source libraries that did things we'd +already implemented. It was reassuring to see other people solving similar +problems in similar ways, but it was too late to integrate outside code: We'd +already written, tested and implemented our own framework bits in several +production settings -- and our own code met our needs delightfully. + Do you have any of those nifty "screencast" things? --------------------------------------------------- |