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# TurboGears And Pylons Working Together

TurboGears 2 will be what TG has been designed to be from the beginning: a stack of best of breed Python components. We’ll make sure these components are wired together to provide a web experience that gets you started quickly, and provides a robust web development environment. TurboGears 2 will also be as API compatible with TurboGears 1 as is reasonable. We do want to make a few API changes, and clean things up a bit as we go. But it should be very easy to port applications from TurboGears 1 to TurboGears 2.

The question has been asked, what does TurboGears 2 do to benefit Pylons development? The simple answer is that TurboGears 2 provides Pylons with a set of standard components, a new controller publishing API that is easier to get started with than Routes, a bunch of additional rapid web development tools, and perhaps most importantly a lot more developer attention.

By working together on core components, we’ll be able to move forward more quickly, and put even more effort into creating a robust, stable core.

Pylons provides a robust WSGI stack, and a clean way to re-implement the TurboGears API in relatively little code. And since Pylons has a goal of being a framework that maximizes developer choices, people have been pushing Ben and the rest of the Pylons developers to make a well documented set of defaults, and to make the framework a bit easier for new developers to learn.

In the new TurboGears+Pylons working together world, we’re both able to focus on the things that have made our individual frameworks successful in the past, and share development effort on lots and lots of things.