[Karrigell-main] Didier's suggestions

[Pierre Q. <que...@wa...>]

I'm very glad and impressed to see these new suggestions. He are my =
reactions,
please take them just as personal opinions and not as decisions. I've =
been
working on my own for 6 months on Karrigell and it will take me a little =
time
to learn to work with a team...

1. Test-suite
- combination Python/HTML : I'll ask Brian Olsen, who's been very =
patient testing
successive versions of PythonInsideHTML ans seems to have a lot of use =
cases
- who could test the second ?
- I don't understand the third one, sorry. Do you mean change a piece of =
code
in a pih script for instance ?

2. Yes, definitely !=20

3. and 4. I fully agree with the objectives behind these suggestions. We =
could=20
achieve them the way you suggest, but I'd rather keep things *very* =
simple for
programmers and I'm afraid adding new concepts of "paths for included =
scripts" and
"paths for imports" would be confusing. There may be other ways to do =
the same things :

for 3. don't aliases already allow this ? In Include(aScript), aScript =
is
the url for the script, and urls are resolved into file names with =
translate_to_path,
which handles aliases

By the way, the Include method should be enhanced :=20
- add the directory of the script in sys.path (for imports from the =
script) -
useless if suggestion 4 is implemented
- before calling render, save current dir, chdir to the script directory =
and
after render, restore previous directory

I've tried minor modifications to include the forum demo in a page in =
another
directory, using =
Include("/components/forum/index.pih",dbDir=3D"demo/dummy")
where "components" is an alias to a directory where the forum demo =
stands, and
"demo/dummy" is the directory where the forum database for the =
application
will stand

for 4. we could just add all dirs and subdirs declared in Karrigell.ini =
(root=20
and aliases) in sys.path before launching the server

5. Ok ; if you suggest this you must have an example in which this would =
be useful,=20
could you give one ?

Now who could implement all this ? Since you're already working on =
Karrigell.py=20
and the new Template.py I think it could be you, Didier ?

Thanks again,
Pierre

PS I had not yet subscribed to the mainling list, this is why this =
answer is out of the
thread...