Re: [Pyblosxom-devel] What Vellum has to offer?

[Wari W. <wa...@ce...>]

* Blake Winton <bl...@ph...> [030210 07:35]:
> Okay, my initial thoughts are: The Audience is pretty much what I had
> come up with before, although that's a great name for it.

Audience, that's a great name! Let's use Vellum :)

> The custom fields are an interesting idea, but I think they're a
> hang-over from C, since in Python you can add any fields you want to
> any object, so there should be no reason to have them there.

You can add custom fields? Hmm, entries can add custom variable, want
more fields, we can do foo(**kwargs), what happens after that?

> I can see what it's trying to do with the vellum.functions and it's a
> neat idea.  We might want to use that, Wari.  

That should be easy to do, right Will :) Will told me that our Callback
transformation is more powerful, also ours seems limited now cause we
have very little thinks to callback with our api, but it will grow I
assure you :)

>> pickle, db, etc...
> Easier to write to the data files with vi?

for DBM:
db_dump -p dbfile > db.dump
vim db.dump
db_load db.dump etc etc

for pickle:
import pickle :)

Stupid, but hey :)

> As a programmer, none of you will have to write the code to read or
> write XML.  I'll do all of that coding for you.  In fact, I'm half
> done.  http://www.latte.ca/cgi-bin/source.py?name=file

Great piece of work there :)

> I did some tests with adding and removing data, and it was on the
> order of 0.02 ms to call get, passing it a type of Storage.COMMENTS on
> a document with three comments.  I don't know if that scales yet, but
> I've got a whack of sample data from Wari, so I'll run some more
> tests, and see what happens.  I am, however, cautiously optimistic.

Go load a page with the harry potter porn comments :) You'll see how
fast it can render 100 comments

I've got other sample data with 516 entries and 1376 comments and
growing :)

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Regards: Wari Wahab
Senior R&D Engineer
Celestix Networks
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