It seems like small, stable packages are desirable from the
practical programming point of view, but bigger, dynamic,
feature-rich packages create more excitement.
At PyCon, it was pretty clear that Zope/Plone, TG, and Django
do have a lot of people excited.


On Mar 6, 2006, at 6:29 PM, Mike Orr wrote:

> Reports of Quixote's death are exaggerated.  It's a small package that
> has reached stability, so there aren't many bug reports.  Those that
> are reported get fixed quickly, thanks to Neil and David.  Quixote's
> minimalist philosophy means it's slow to add features, so there's not
> much reason to change.