On Tuesday 02 April 2002 23:50, Mike Orr wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 06:05:38PM -0800, Tavis Rudd wrote: > > > Any other drawbacks from anyone else? > > > > Mike, can you think of any after using it? > > What's the question? I didn't get Jay's response to your > distutils pep talk, if he sent it to the list.
The list was being particularly slow yesterday. I'm still receiving the messages now. > Distutils pro: > ** Convenient. > ** Installs just like any other Python package. > ** Separation of read-only data (maintained by the developers) and > read-write data (maintained by the sysadmin). > ** Ability for multiple users (or the same user) to run multiple > "instances" of the program. Granted, you can do that with > Webware already. > ** Encourages us to package Webware in a library-friendly manner, > so that parts can be used in other projects. Each *Kit is > meant to be used that way anyway, since they are advertised > as being "not Webware specific, but useful in other projects." > ** Tavis' "webkit" wrapper is convenient to use. > Distutils con: > ** Does not install the documentation and examples? Python > does not have a standard place to put these files. Perhaps > we'd have to make distutils do something "extra" for this. > The examples/admin console could be made into importable > libraries, and then installed into the user's configuration that > way somehow. Actually, I already hacked it to do this. The was the idea behind the builtin 'HelpDesk' application I started coding. > ** No uninstall feature. As I recommended, we should hack this in > ourselves. I like the install log suggestion. > I've been using WebwareExpRefactoring+Cheetah on my home site since > March 8. http://iron.cx/ . It's been pretty stable; Tavis has > been fixing bugs as I report them. They're were a couple > showstoppers but they've been fixed now. The one disadvantage > currently is that success logging isn't implemented, just failure > logging. I just use Apache's access log for my success logging. Yeah, I was holding off on that until a better logging framework is created. I've hacked Sache's LoggingKit into the system, but it still needs a few hours of work. Tavis _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
