[Freeipa-devel] Turbogears

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Mon Jul 30 18:59:51 UTC 2007


Kevin McCarthy wrote:
> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> It crashes because it can't reload the updated python. I find it annoying 
>> too but have just gotten used to it (and better at python syntax).
> 
> Alighty, I'll have to be more careful too then.  It makes me a bit
> scared of production stability though.  I'd rather one controller serve
> up 500 Server Errors than the entire server crash.  Hopefully it only
> behaves this way for Python syntax errors, and not for other things that
> are harder to test.

Yes, some errors cause it to completely wig out and crash, others are 
just displayed.

> 
>>> Smaller things I find weird is that SQLObjects save on contruction,
>>> which doesn't lend itself to temporary model objects.  And "widgets"
>>> invoke bad memories of JSP tags.
>> We can't use SQLObjects can we? We don't have a SQL database.
> 
> Yes, thank goodness.  I just found the design odd, is all.
> 
> 
>> One of the main factors in choose it was the ability to easy forge ahead 
>> using generic objects (dicts, lists and such) instead of SQL objects. And 
>> since python was chosen as the language for the XML-RPC server having one 
>> language across things is nice.
> 
> I agree.  The less languages/technologies involved the better.
> 
> How have you found the 'kid' and user interface tools so far?  The
> tutorial doesn't cover much ground there.

I just used vi myself. At least some of the tools only work when you use 
SQLObjects (they don't even work with the alternate object SQLAlchemy).

rob
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