Re: Pyramid Books Published by O'Reilly

2013-03-25 Thread Steve Schmechel
In order to make creating a web application like configuring an XML file, your framework must be very opinionated, which Pyramid is not. I think there are two different audiences here and you are never going to change Django configurers into Pyramid programmers with a great book. Maybe they

Re: The problem with using KeyError for non-existing resources and traversal

2013-03-07 Thread Steve Schmechel
Peter, This still seems to come down to fuzzy requirement definitions. What is your distinction between users and developers? What functionality do you expect to control vs. other developers/users controlling? There is a range of answers for both questions that are workable, but you seem to be

Re: The problem with using KeyError for non-existing resources and traversal

2013-03-06 Thread Steve Schmechel
If architecture and designs are being critiqued, here are a few thoughts from 50,000 feet: Pyramid bills itself as a framework for building frameworks and others have successfully done exactly that. Traversal makes certain use cases easier (i.e. yours), but it is not a miracle solution that can

Re: Kotti is (now) a high-level, Pythonic web application framework. It includes a small and extensible CMS application called the Kotti CMS.

2012-03-05 Thread Steve Schmechel
Are all the required libraries released publicly (on pypi or public sections of other repositories) so people do not need authorization for access? Following the documentation at: http://kotti.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html Creating a virtual environment and running PIP, it stops

Re: Cornice 0.6 released

2011-12-21 Thread Steve Schmechel
Following the tutorial did not work for me using pip, but worked fine using easy_install (distribute). It was done with Python 2.7 in a virtual environment created with --no-site-packages. (The pro-Pip people claim that problems encountered with Pip are due to authors not setting things up

Re: Cornice 0.6 released

2011-12-21 Thread Steve Schmechel
, Chris McDonough chr...@plope.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 12:17 -0600, Steve Schmechel wrote: Following the tutorial did not work for me using pip, but worked fine using easy_install (distribute). It was done with Python 2.7 in a virtual environment created with --no-site-packages

Re: Cornice 0.6 released

2011-12-21 Thread Steve Schmechel
...@plope.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 21:03 -0600, Steve Schmechel wrote: Maybe I used the wrong term in pinning. Or maybe the tutorial should be a special case. Say I write some code today that relies on Cornice version 0.6 and it works splendidly. Then in a few weeks/months I

Re: Docs fail to mention bin/activate

2011-12-06 Thread Steve Schmechel
I usually do belt and suspenders; source activate or run activate.bat, and then always include the path to the executable or batch file in the environment (under bin or Scripts depending on the platform). I like the explicit commands, but they always have to be translated when running under