[documancer] Re: [documancer-users] a few bugs?

[Vaclav S. <vac...@ma...>]

Hi,

(sorry for late reply, I was away during the weekend and was a bit=20
busy ever since)

Arnd Baecker wrote:
> When doing a few tests with documancer I observed
> a couple of points (I don't know if they have been mentioned
> before, but on sourceforge
> there is no archive to the mailing list yet).

That's because you're the first one to post to it ;)

> a) It would be nice to have the "Adding Books" section and
>    the "Keyboard shortcuts" of the README
>    accessible from the "Help" menu of the documancer

You're right -- I didn't do it yet because there are so many things to=20
do in Documancer...

> b) Adding a book:
>    I did: File/Manage Books/New Book,
>     HTML: /home/python/PYTHON_TST/docs/Python-Docs-2.3.2/index.html
>    and enabled fulltext search.
>
>     After this the corresponding Book "PythonHtml"
>     is the active book is only listed when one clicks on
>     the "books selection"
>
>     Typing "print" in the search field gives:
>
>   File "/home/python/PYTHON_TST/lib/documancer/gui/MainFrame.py",
> line 313, in OnSearch
>     for title, url, score in indexer.search(self.currentBook,
> query): File "/home/python/PYTHON_TST/lib/documancer/indexer.py",
> line 121, in search
>     __ensureBookIndexValidity(b)
>   File "/home/python/PYTHON_TST/lib/documancer/indexer.py", line
> 108, in __ensureBookIndexValidity
>     if b.getAttr(book.ATTR_DIRTY) =3D=3D '1':
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getAttr'

If the book wasn't selected, right? Thanks, I fixed it CVS -- it=20
should no longer be possible to end up w/o some book selected unless=20
you don't have any books at all.

>     One minor point: changing "full-text search" to disabled in the
>     Bookmanager gives when no book is selected (the first time)
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "/home/python/PYTHON_TST/lib/documancer/gui/BooksManagerDialog.py",
> line 161, in OnSettingsChange
>     self.UpdateBook()
>   File
> "/home/python/PYTHON_TST/lib/documancer/gui/BooksManagerDialog.py",
> line 221, in UpdateBook
>     self.SetConfigPanel(book.provider)
>   File
> "/home/python/PYTHON_TST/lib/documancer/gui/BooksManagerDialog.py",
> line 143, in SetConfigPanel
>     panel =3D providers.providers[provider].\
> KeyError: ''

Thanks, fixed as well.

> c) For pydoc: site-packages/wxPython/wx:
>     either: crashes
>     or: mouse pointer with watch - application hangs
>
>     However, other texts work, so this might be caused by wx ?

Rather by the way pydoc works -- it imports the modules and this may=20
cause problems if the module does some initialization immediately=20
when imported. The only safe fix seems to be to abandon pydoc and use=20
epydoc or HappyDoc to generate documentation from Python sources.=20
That or running pydoc in separate process.

> d) Searching for something with pydoc: it seems that
>    generating the index  does not come to an end.

It's possible that it takes *really* long to index everything. Or that=20
it hands when it tries to fetch wxPython files, see c).

> e) Presently it seems that it is not possible that
>    two different users run documancer on the
>    same machine ("Address already in use").
>    In the longer run I would like to run documancer on a cluster
>    with several users logged in. Is there any possibility for this
>    in principle?

Yes, sure -- all I need to do is to somehow (I didn't try to find out=20
how yet, so if you know, tell me!) detect unused port(s) and use it=20
instead of fixed one.

> I also have a couple of wish-list points, however they need
> a bit more thinking ...

Looking forward to them ;)

Thanks,
Vaclav

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