[clintonb]

Nope. I want well-defined best practices that make it easy for me to focus on the real engineering challenges rather than boilerplate. The issue I have is that there are numerous, sometimes conflicting, methods of solving the same problems that, in the Django/Rails worlds have one generally-accepted solution. As I mentioned earlier, there are numerous methods of solving i18n and it isn't clear which is "the best." A framework is a potential solution to this problem. Simply getting folks to all align on supporting a few libraries is also a solution. The challenge, of course, is that my "best" isn't the same as your "best," thus we end up with conflicting solutions.