[windle]

Not quite the same, because the new version has a bunch of features added. If you'd like to stick with the camera analogy, you should think of the pylons framework more as a good lens for the DSLR. Most of the features are from the body, so you upgrade that and keep using the same lens.

The Pylons framework was almost entirely just glue between your choices of ORM/templates along with using WebHelpers and Beaker. Those projects are still in use with pyramid, still getting updates (and thus a pylons project will still get feature updates via them).

I tried to explain this better here: http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_thread/...