Re: [Rest2web-develop] Re: We forked validate.py

[Nicola L. <ni...@te...>]

> Something like that - *sigh*. Staff problems, meetings, customer
> problems, customers..... I'm actually quite fond of the bricks... it's
> the people I struggle with ;-)

You're not the only one. ;-)


>> So, tell me what you think of my last commits to validate.py, before I go
>> on and tackle configreader.py . :-)

> Yes - very impressed. I generally like all the changes. The new errors,
> the neat way you've improved the Validator object and the list tests,
> the docutils tests.

Great. :-)


> Of course it means I have to rework the docs ! Bah.....

Yes, slightly. ;-) I tried to keep the docstrings up to date, though.
Speaking of which, we could do worse than generating the API docs with
epydoc, or something. I'll see what I can do about this too.


> I intend to rename configreader to configobj at some point - and have it
> as a standalone module. I wasn't intending to have an ``__init__.py`` in
> the final version. We've ended up with the wrong filename because my
> first implementation was a reader only.
> 
> In writing the documentation I've uncovered about 15 issues (including
> two bugfixes) that I *need* to resolve. This is along with implementing
> ``writein`` and the comments stuff. All that won't take too long, but
> can you hold off configreader until then ?

Good to know. ;-) Yes, of course. I'm itching to understand its code,
though, so I think I'll give it a read-only look. ;-)


> In the meantime if you want to implement any more built in tests for
> validate.py, do the timestamp and a regex test for example.....  feel
> free :-)

More polishing, eh? I'll see what I can do...


> It looks like we need another project to work on together. Maybe you
> could look at Firedrop - there's still a lot to do for that. Or we could
> pick up rest2web....

Of course we *will*. ConfigObj is useful in itself, and it's a simpler
testbench for both our collaboration and the introduction of a few new
tools and techniques, but once done with it I definitely intend to get back
to rest2web. As far as Firedrop is concerned, we'll see. :-)


>> Individually as opposed to what? I'm not sure I understand.

> Don't worry - my new way is better. It just means re-implementing some
> stuff and rewriting some docs :-)
> 
> Bugger.

What else is new? ;-)


>> So it's easier to chat from Romania than from Britain. Bah! ;-) See what
>> you can do.

> Unfortunately that seems to be true at the moment.

That's a pity, though. :-(


P.S.: are you still using, and fixing, DrPython? ;-D

-- 
Nicola Larosa - ni...@te...

Learning C after learning Python can be done via Pyrex. [...]
Learning Java after learning Python can be done via Jython. [...]
Learning Perl after learning Python can ... never mind. ;-)
 -- André Roberge, May 2005