Re: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webwa re 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Tavis Rudd
Damn, I can't find that old email. I thought I had a fairly compelling argument;) Here's what I see as the key practical advantages: * it allows you to quickly create distribution packages in a variety of different formats: binary-tarball, src-tarball, rpm, deb, windows installer, etc. * it

RE: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webwa re 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Love, Jay
Err... Why do I always have to be the fly in the ointment? I don't see the point of Disutils for Webware. Webware is not a library, at least not really. It's an application. There are parts of it that can be used as a library, but that hasn't been the focus for a long time. On Linux, I don't

RE: [Webware-discuss] awake respond sleep cycle

2002-04-02 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
Karl Putland wrote: > I'm trying to understand the whole transaction mechanism in WebKit. > > I attempted to subclass page calling it DatabasePage with methods > for connection management and hook a hook around sleep to manage > the commit/rollback for the page. This works well for pages > witho

RE: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webwa re 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
Tavis Rudd wrote: > How about starting with the distutils stuff? It's one part that > should be fairly easy to isolate and apply to the official codebase > as a patch. I'll do some work on this later this week. I'd > appreciate any comments on the code (thanks Jeff) and the ideas > behind i

Re: [Webware-discuss] Testing gotchas (was re: What's needed for Webware 1.0?)

2002-04-02 Thread Tavis Rudd
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 13:21, Jeffrey P Shell wrote: > On 4/2/02 2:51 PM, "Tavis Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about starting with the distutils stuff? It's one part that > > should be fairly easy to isolate and apply to the official > > codebase as a patch. I'll do some work on thi

[Webware-discuss] Testing gotchas (was re: What's needed for Webware 1.0?)

2002-04-02 Thread Jeffrey P Shell
On 4/2/02 2:51 PM, "Tavis Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about starting with the distutils stuff? It's one part that > should be fairly easy to isolate and apply to the official codebase > as a patch. I'll do some work on this later this week. I'd > appreciate any comments on the code

Re: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webwa re 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Tavis Rudd
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 12:59, Tavis Rudd wrote: > On Tuesday 02 April 2002 11:01, Geoffrey Talvola wrote: > > If we could decouple the changes from each other, and have a > > separate discussion of the merits of each proposed change, then > > phase in the new features gradually as patches, then

Re: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Tavis Rudd
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 12:59, Tavis Rudd wrote: > I've politely asked for cvs access several times to be > able to work on a branch, but never got any response. Actually, that's not totally correct. I never got any 'definitive response', just a sort of implied no. Anyway, it's not a big

Re: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webwa re 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Tavis Rudd
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 11:01, Geoffrey Talvola wrote: > Kendall Clark wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:15:23PM -0500, Geoffrey Talvola wrote: > > > Actually, I don't mind if other major work goes into > > > > Webware before 1.0, > > > > > like Jay's multi-application version of WebKit or so

[Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Jeffrey P Shell
On 4/2/02 1:02 PM, "Tavis Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've already done it :) > see Setup.py and Component.py in > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/expwebware/Webware/Webware/ > > I'm still waiting for feedback on it before I do anything more. Those look nice. Some feedbac

Re: [Webware-discuss] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Jeffrey P Shell
On 4/2/02 1:02 PM, "Tavis Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've already done it :) > see Setup.py and Component.py in > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/expwebware/Webware/Webware/ > > I'm still waiting for feedback on it before I do anything more. Those look nice. Some feedbac

[Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Tavis Rudd
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 10:41, Geoffrey Talvola wrote: > Tavis Rudd wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 April 2002 06:55, you wrote: > > > Now that 0.7 is out, I think it's high time that we moved > > > Webware in the direction of a 1.0 release. What things still > > > need to be done? > > > > In order of

RE: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webwa re 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
Kendall Clark wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:15:23PM -0500, Geoffrey Talvola wrote: > > Actually, I don't mind if other major work goes into > Webware before 1.0, > > like Jay's multi-application version of WebKit or some of Tavis's > > experimental work. I just want to make sure we're maki

RE: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webwa re 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
Tavis Rudd wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 April 2002 10:20, you wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Distutils is pretty much an expectation nowadays for Python > > > packages. If not by 1.0, then soon after. If we combine that > > > with a test suite, people will be able to install, test and > >

Re: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Kendall Clark
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:43:01AM -0800, Tavis Rudd wrote: > > I'm guessing here, but I suspect this should be a combination of > > PyUnit tests and some kind of Web app testing framework; a friend > > of mine's coworker, Keyton Weissinger, has just released a Web app > > testing framework, whic

Re: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webwa re 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Tavis Rudd
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 10:20, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Distutils is pretty much an expectation nowadays for Python > > packages. If not by 1.0, then soon after. If we combine that > > with a test suite, people will be able to install, test and > > uninstall Webware with the sta

Re: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Mike Orr
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:57:01PM -0500, Edmund Lian wrote: > > >>Ahem, that's "a builit-in uninstall", not "AI built-in uninstall"<< > > But AI is not completely off the mark. I thought you were alluding to the > general difficulty of doing an uninstall. I've seen two different solutions > to

[Webware-discuss] RE: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
Tavis Rudd wrote: > On Tuesday 02 April 2002 06:55, you wrote: > > Now that 0.7 is out, I think it's high time that we moved Webware > > in the direction of a 1.0 release. What things still need to be > > done? > > In order of priority: > > - completely automated test suite, that is easy to add

Re: [Webware-discuss] webware debian package

2002-04-02 Thread Tavis Rudd
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 10:28, Matt Feifarek wrote: > | Matt, > | until Webware is repackaged for distutils installation I don't > | think it makes any sense to create a .deb package. > > I agree. ... > I agree that we should shelve this issue. But we should definitely revisit this once the tran

Re: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Tavis Rudd
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 09:56, Kendall Clark wrote: > > "tavis" == Tavis Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > tavis> On Tuesday 02 April 2002 06:55, you wrote: > >> Now that 0.7 is out, I think it's high time that we moved > >> Webware in the direction of a 1.0 release. What things sti

RE: [Webware-discuss] webware debian package

2002-04-02 Thread Matt Feifarek
| Matt, | until Webware is repackaged for distutils installation I don't think | it makes any sense to create a .deb package. I agree. | I disagree. It makes sense for the core Webware packages to be | installed to PYTHONHOME/site-packages and config files and servlet | directories to be kept e

Re: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Mike Orr
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:42:54AM -0800, Tavis Rudd wrote: > On Tuesday 02 April 2002 06:55, you wrote: > > Now that 0.7 is out, I think it's high time that we moved Webware > > in the direction of a 1.0 release. What things still need to be > > done? > > In order of priority: That's quite a b

RE: [Webware-discuss] webware debian package

2002-04-02 Thread Jason Hildebrand
On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 12:04, Edmund Lian wrote: > > Matt wrote: > > >>It's possible (likely?) that Webware cannot be installed according to the > debian guidelines.<< > > I like the monolithic install as it is, even though I use Debian. Sprinking > the files all over the filesystem as per Debia

RE: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Distutils is pretty much an expectation nowadays for Python packages. > If not by 1.0, then soon after. If we combine that with a test > suite, people will be able to install, test and uninstall Webware > with the standard Python package tools. (Although distutils >

Re: [Webware-discuss] webware debian package

2002-04-02 Thread Tavis Rudd
Matt, until Webware is repackaged for distutils installation I don't think it makes any sense to create a .deb package. On Tuesday 02 April 2002 09:42, you wrote: > | /usr/share/webware/ for library modules (most of Webware). > | /usr/bin/ for wrapper scripts run from the command line > | (MakeA

RE: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
Kendall Clark wrote: > There are a few minor tweaks I suspect to get in before 1.0 as well, > but I'd say the big things are the testing framework, distutils, > better docs, and logging solution. Actually, I don't mind if other major work goes into Webware before 1.0, like Jay's multi-application

RE: [Webware-discuss] webware debian package

2002-04-02 Thread Edmund Lian
Matt wrote: >>It's possible (likely?) that Webware cannot be installed according to the debian guidelines.<< I like the monolithic install as it is, even though I use Debian. Sprinking the files all over the filesystem as per Debian policy assumes that only one copy of Webware is active on the

[Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Kendall Clark
> "tavis" == Tavis Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: tavis> On Tuesday 02 April 2002 06:55, you wrote: >> Now that 0.7 is out, I think it's high time that we moved Webware >> in the direction of a 1.0 release. What things still need to be >> done? tavis> In order of priority: ta

Re: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Edmund Lian
>>Ahem, that's "a builit-in uninstall", not "AI built-in uninstall"<< But AI is not completely off the mark. I thought you were alluding to the general difficulty of doing an uninstall. I've seen two different solutions to the problem of figuring out what was installed in the first place, and ne

RE: [Webware-discuss] webware debian package

2002-04-02 Thread Matt Feifarek
| /usr/share/webware/ for library modules (most of Webware). | /usr/bin/ for wrapper scripts run from the command line (MakeAppWorkDir). | /etc/webware/ for configuration files (edited by sysadmin). | ~/.webware for usr-modified configuration files. [etc] Well, it really doesn't seem that webwar

[Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Tavis Rudd
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 06:55, you wrote: > Now that 0.7 is out, I think it's high time that we moved Webware > in the direction of a 1.0 release. What things still need to be > done? In order of priority: - completely automated test suite, that is easy to add new tests to - distutils support

Re: [Webware-discuss] 'interpreting' html pulled out of database

2002-04-02 Thread dennis
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > Here's an approach that could work for you: > - Write Python servlets (*.py) for all your pages. > > - Invoke self.writeFragment() to get the correct HTML peices. > > self.writeFragment('header') Yes, I've done some of this with Webware. It

[Webware-discuss] awake respond sleep cycle

2002-04-02 Thread Karl Putland
Sorry if you got this twice but I didn't see it go through to the list. I'm trying to understand the whole transaction mechanism in WebKit. I attempted to subclass page calling it DatabasePage with methods for connection management and hook a hook around sleep to manage the commit/rollback for

Re: [Webware-discuss] webware debian package

2002-04-02 Thread Edmund Lian
Matt wrote: >>Another variable is getting it hooked into apache, if apache is there.<< You'll also need to do something about Webware dependencies. E.g., Webware depends on Python 2.x, but suggests Apache, cern-httpd, thttpd, etc. ...Edmund. ___ We

Re: [Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Mike Orr
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 07:28:35AM -0800, Mike Orr wrote: > (Although distutils > doesn't seem to have ai built-in uninstall support yet.) Ahem, that's "a builit-in uninstall", not "AI built-in uninstall". -- -Mike (Iron) Orr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (if mail problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) http:

[Webware-discuss] Re: [Webware-devel] What's needed for Webware 1.0?

2002-04-02 Thread Mike Orr
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:55:08AM -0500, Geoffrey Talvola wrote: > Now that 0.7 is out, I think it's high time that we moved Webware in the > direction of a 1.0 release. What things still need to be done? > > But in my opinion, it's only the lack of automated testing that really > prevents us f

Re: [Webware-discuss] webware debian package

2002-04-02 Thread Ian Bicking
It would be spiffy to have a debian package -- it would go hand-in-hand with getting Webware to install with distutils and generally codifying policy. It should be possible to make PSP files work out-of-the-box. Some user intervention into httpd.conf will be required to get non-PSP servlets to w

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[Webware-discuss] Postgres adaptor

2002-04-02 Thread aerd
Hi, who is working on the PostgreSQL adaptor for Webware? I would like to follow. Consider the following items and give your opinions: * there's no unsigned type. Should be create a new type, or leave it as bigint. (Anyway it will be big enough.) * there's no enum type. I still don't know how

Re: [Webware-discuss] webware debian package

2002-04-02 Thread Mike Orr
I use Debian although I'm not a developer. The information is at http://www.debian.org/devel/ . If you want to submit a .deb to the Debian Project, it's a lot of overhead and complication to package it up according to all the rules, get your PGP key signed, etc. If we just distribute the .deb o

[Webware-discuss] webware debian package

2002-04-02 Thread Matt Feifarek
Hello list. I was thinking that it would be nice of us to make a debian package (.deb) of webware. What steps would be required to get webware fully installed, and running on a debian box? Here's a starter list; please contribute. 0. check for required dependencies (python 2+) 1. uncompress web