Re: [Boa Constr] Interface comments

[Riaan B. <riaan@e.co.za>]

Hi Randy,

Randy wrote:
> 
> >
> > I want to clear up something which you seem to expect of Boa.
> > Boa is not just a Frame Designer, it aims to be an Python IDE
> > supporting as many Python technologies as possible that aid the
> > development process.
> 
> Against my will, I switched from Boa to Xemacs because Boa
> does not support editing of remote Python CGI server files via
> FTP, and Xemacs does. I would very much prefer using Boa but
> cannot directly do so for my CGI work.
> 
> One alternative is to do my CGI development locally with Boa
> and upload files to the server, but using Xemacs to remotely
> edit server files works better - the server changes are
> instantaneous and the development is far faster and easier.
> 
>      Randy

The current CVS version is halfway there, FTP connections can be 
browsed with the explorer and can be copy and pasted to the 
filesystem.
The idea is definitely to end up editing the Boa modules 
transparently over FTP, but we're not there yet.

As an amusing but effective quick hack you may try is the following;
if you are not using the Zope side of Boa. My Zope Explorer 
implementation uses FTP as the transport.

In Editor.py change the definitions of the Zope Views (for me line 69) 
from:

defZopeDocModelViews = (HTMLSourceView,)
adtZopeDocModelViews = (ZopeHTMLView,)

to:

defZopeDocModelViews = (PythonSourceView,)
adtZopeDocModelViews = ()

Also define under the 'zope' section of Explorer.*.cfg the parameters
of your FTP connection. 

This adds the thin layer of syntax highlighted Python on top of
essentially a FTP text document model. Basic operations like Save, Find,
Cut/Copy/Paste etc work, but features that access parsed python
datastructures fail, so expect a lot of noise on stderr ;)

HTH in the meanwhile...

-- 
Riaan Booysen
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