[Pas-dev] Re: PAS?

[Bob S. <bo...@or...>]

 > I've CC'd this on the pas-dev mailing list (the only list with any 
activiy at
 > this time).  The SourceForge link to the mailing lists is:
 >
 >   http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=19226
 >
 > The Geocrawler link for the dev list archive is here:
 >
 >   http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/9231/0/
 >
 > There should be about 9 messages from this month.


For some reason the sourceforge list (which comes first) shows only 1
message (the geocrawler archive does show the right number).


 >
 > How did the installation and configuraiton go?  Were there any issues
 > with the software?


It installed and ran quite easily. The only small glitch was your use of
00INDEX.HTML files, rather than index.html. I'm not sure where the form
you use comes from, but index.html seems fairly standard on most apache
servers, I think.

One thing I was puzzled about was that in the pas.conf file, there are
these lines:

pas.pages.test=TestPage
pas.pages.foobar.quzbaz=TestPage

pas.pages.examples.therm.Conv=Therm::ThermPage
pas.pages.examples.Redirect=Redirect
pas.pages.examples.dbExplorer.Explorer=DbExplorer::Explorer

I don't understand how these relate to the following URL, which brings
up the test example #1:

http://localhost/pas/examples/test.psp

 > Also, are you using a 'release', or the current CVS tree?  There has been
 > some significant development since the last release.

I've so far tried just the latest release. It wasn't clear what was in
the CVS.

 > Thanks for taking a look.  Any feedback at all is welcome.

There's a lot about it that I like. I like the simplicity of your
templating language, and that it maps directly into a Perl class.

I'm not sure I'm totally comfortable with your page object model. I
would like to be able to abstract out pieces of the page, and then fit
them back together, in the template. Really each piece (component?)
needs to have its own implementation object, and a separate rendering 
object. I'd like to be able fit the results back together dynamically.

Your work on database connectivity looks interesting, but I haven't 
checked it out yet. I am definitely interested in reducing the amount of 
work I have to do when I implement yet-another-table in the database (I 
want to factor out much of the fetch/store/search/list/modify 
functionality).

I'm thinking that in order to understand what I *really* need to
re-implement my website so it's maintainable, is to build the framework
myself. So my current plan is to see what the most minimalist system I
can possibly build is. I'm thinking of doing it in Ruby.

Thanks,
Bob