On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Christoph Zwerschke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jorge Vargas schrieb: >> I think we could somehow make the values auto transform, maybe call >> paste's asbool, etc automagically? > > Problematic. To be consequent, we will then have to evaluate all values > (ints, lists) and require strings to be quoted. I also don't like the > thought that config values will need to be evaluated *every* time you're > accessing them. If you use ConfigObj, they are only evaluated once. > for the record I was talking about a change in tg/configuration.py therefore it will be a load ones thing.
>>> It's inconvenient, error-prone and less performant if I need to evaluate >>> or cast config options. And I don't see any methods for this, such as >>> config.getint or config.getboolean that could be used in templates. >>> >> This could be very easy to add config is simply a Bunch object > > I think the original config parser has such methods. Maybe we need to > proxy them or something. > we'll have to look more into it. to be honest I'm not entire sure of the process that gets this done. But I'm sure it's all handled inside paste, probably pasteScript. >>> Therefore, in terms of usability, the new config system is a step back >>> for me. >>> >> maybe but I find it a lot more useful and clean for the code base. I >> think all of these are features we should grow into it. Can we make a >> ticket? > > Ok, I'll summarize this in a ticket so we can rethink and improve the > TG2 config system and the configurability of the templating system until > the next release. I understand this is not easy to change because the > config usage is so interwoven with Paste and Pylons - now the problems > we had with the CherryPy 2 config are haunting us here as well. > > -- Christoph > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
