On Nov 29, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 03:53 PM 11/29/2005 -0800, Ted Leung wrote:
Building Chandler Parcels <http://svn.osafoundation.org/chandler/
branches/Chandler_0.6/chandler/distrib/docs/
BuildingChandlerParcels.html> is a revision of this year's PyCon
paper <http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Documentation/
BuildingChandlerParcels> to reflect all the changes that we've made
in 0.6. The goal of the document is not to be a detail tutorial on
how to write a parcel, but to present enough detail so that someone
has a general idea of the process.
I'd love it if a few people could take some time to review it and
suggest improvements.
* PeriodicTask automatically creates a new view, so you don't need
the 'createView()' call. 'self.view = item.itsView' is sufficient.
Ok, I didn't know that
* It would probably be easier to see the schema as a whole if the
attribute definitions were one-liners, given that the definitions
are all quite short. Right now the FeedChannel class can't be read
in one screenful.
I can read it in a screenful ;-). I'll fix this, probably after
incorporating some of Alec's ideas to shorten.
* It seems like all the init code should be wrapped in a def
installParcel() block; right now that's just alluded to in the
text, and it makes the question of where 'parcel' comes from, and
when all the code is executed, a bit confusing.
This is a good idea. I wasn't really happy with that section (it was
sort of vestigial from the initial version), and I think this will
really help
* The link at the bottom that says "There is a more detailed
tutorial on the workings of the Feeds parcel that will explain more
of the details of writing a parcel." is actually a link to the same
page. :)
That's because I'm still not quite sure where that link should point..
Thanks for the feedback,
Ted
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