-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 1, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Aaron Crosman wrote:
>> From my reading of the responses to my question I see two ways that > people are thinking of proceeding, which I think might complement each > other well. > > First, there's the approach of fixing the current pages by moving the > style information out of the Python code and into a CSS file. Second, > there's the more extensive work to switch to a proper templating > system > like Genshi. I think in the long run, getting all the XHTML into > external files is where the project should go. Totally agreed. One of the design goals of the trunk is to allow people to run Mailman without the web u/i, e.g. driven by Zope, TG, Django, etc. Once I get a little farther with my SQLAlchemy/Elixir branch, the next thing I'm going to do is egg-ify the code. I desperately want to get rid of configure. > That will give users the > most freedom to redesign how they see fit (good design of the default > templates would still have that be styled using CSS), but it looks > like > there are a lot of work to make good progress in that area. I'd > like to > suggest a mixed approach. If we started to working fixing the 2.1 > branch to have better output (even if it's never properly released), > that would allow some people to do useful work while Barry firms up > the > trunk and we make a final choice of a templating engine. Once a > template > engine is inserted, that improved output could serve as the basis for > the first templates for the system. Also, while we're finding a > changing the HTML in the current python code, we could mark that > code to > be easy to find later. > > We also need to attend to the "creaky decade-old look", but I would > suggest that really be taken on as part of the work to move to a real > template system, not as part of picking off the low hanging fruit. Agreed. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRje4jHEjvBPtnXfVAQLm9wQAqhU2ISlP0j5jD9OKBlc6Nc2F/qJSuSfB yxWk0YZXNUAcgzOc58NXL6fxyjd/112A5ait+1/WhgyCLOhrzwujrn3NMGldNYOf XkiUDKuko4F2Fi4/ELdX8uoBSUeGAXAheRZZXFLGavlUVzwKi6dPRnn7/RJyh2yf FIpoLOr0Yk0= =dhpL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
