On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-22 15:30]: > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think web-based search would be interesting and would be helped by a > > > better browsing interface. (Some progress in search is dependent on > > > making progress on the tag/attribute discussion.) I have a > > > preliminary changeset that provides an Atom feed of the catalog > > > updates that would be nice to see finished. I'd like to see work on > > > the intent and statistics side, too. > > > > > > Dan and I were kicking around how we might use either a templating > > > system, like > > > > > > http://www.makotemplates.org/ > > > > > > or even one of the lighter frameworks, like > > > > > > http://www.cherrypy.org/ > > > > > > to make it easier to flesh out pkg.depotd's reporting capabilities. > > > > Has anyone looked at Genshi as an alternative to Mako? > > > > http://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/GenshiFaq > > > > It is XML-oriented instead of stream oriented and that makes it easier > > to fit into the XML toolchains available. > > (Yes.) What XML data do you plan to transform? Or, if you like, why > would we use XML in an interface layer that we expect to be mostly > directed at humans?
I was mainly talking about transforming the output. The web formats I imagine being used are XML-based in nature, right? So, the output could be XHTML, RSS, etc. I don't have my heart set on any particular toolkit here. I just wanted to see if Genshi had been considered. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
