Re: [PyCS-devel] Helloooo!

[<gb...@mu...>]

Hi!

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:18:01AM -0500, digital hyakugei wrote:
> I've got pyDS running. I (sort of) have it talking to pycs.net

Hey, that is cool, as I never ever tried it with W2K :-)

> (http://www.pycs.net/users/0000074/) tho phil said that it wasn't really
> talking to pycs correctly - could be - the pyDS docs leave a bit to be

Hmm. Looks fine to me, except that several files are missing (images and
stylesheet). This might be due to the fact that PyDS isn't really
Window-aware and needs a $HOME directory for the user and want's to
create a .PyDS directory there and populate it. So all this might go bad
on Windows, as there isn't such a thing like users home directories and
hidden directories in the Unix sense.

Did you set a HOME environment variable to point to some place where
your current user has write permissions?

Oh, and you created a user at muensterland.org, too. But I assume that
was because some experiments, right? Doesn't look too populated, that
directory ;-)

> desired ;). In the upstream pref i think i used the url:
> http://www.pycs.net/RPC2... Thats about it.

Yep, you usually don't need to do more. Everything else comes from the
community server.

> <error>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "pycs_module_handler.py", line 155, in continue_request
>     mod = cached_module( realPath )
>   File "pycs_module_handler.py", line 78, in __init__
>     self.Recompile()
>   File "pycs_module_handler.py", line 86, in Recompile
>     self.module = compile(code,self.path,'exec')
>   File "<string>", line 116
> 
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> </error>

What is in line 116 of weblogUpdates.py on your machine? Maybe there is
just a broken version in the tar.gz? I never installed it that way, as I
always use CVS :-)

> I also had another question about pyCS - is there any chance that it will
> speak the blogger API? does this request even make sense? I've looked into

No, PyCS can't speak it, as it isn't a weblog application but a
community server. The blogger API should go into PyDS, as that is the
desktop part of the bunch. But I currently don't work on it.

> Radio and know what it does, but i'm a bit unclear about RCS/pyCS's function
> and if it/they require a client like Radio/pyDS...

RCS/pyCS are just the server that pushes out your static content, you
generated with Radio or PyDS or bzero. A community server has several
aspects and functions:

- user registration (mostly done automatic) for new users
- uploading of changed files
- pushing static files to the world
- comment functionality
- referer, searches or other reports

So it is a bit like an FTP server with some CGI functionality, if you
want to see it like that.

bye, Georg