Re: Re: upload binary file/current state of quixote

On Mar 9, 2006, at 5:04 AM, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

> Bo Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> need for a simpler way to determine upload size is the main reason I
>> decided to use quixote 1.x instead 2-alpha when our site (douban.com)
>> was launched in march 2005. today we're still with 1.x.
>
> Hmm, that hardly sounds like a show stopper.  Would the attached
> patch do the trick for you (it adds a get_size() method to the
> Upload object)?
>

Thanks, Neil. I'll look into it.

> Any other reasons why you don't want to migrate to Quixote 2?
>

Not really, other than the generic "ain't broken, don't fix it"  
principle applied on a large site. We're not using the forms  
framework, so there isn't much motivation.

>> by the way, talking about current state of Quixote, douban.com is now
>> getting 450,000 page views a day. 100% dynamically generated by qx. I
>> might be wrong but, it seems we are a busier site than every other
>> known ROR/django/TG installations in the world.
>
> Awesome.  I guess I need to work on my Chinese so I can read the
> site. :-)

www.douban.net
that's an english language version (same except there's no movies or  
price comparison).

>   Neil

- Bo