Re: Upgrading from PackageManager installed PyDS to 0.7.1/CVS

Hi!

> That was my biggest gripe, having to set publish to yes after
uploading.

The reason for this is that PictureTool want's to combine two different
goals:

- managing media files (in this case pictures)
- providing a picture blog

The first thing only needs to import pictures and then you use them in
your stories or posts with the $pictures.imageTag(...) cheetah code. The
second thing is what requires you to set publish to "yes".

So actually it would be much better to differentiate between those two
goals and have two different tools. One being a media manager that just
manages external media files, in that case it should manage much more
than just images. The other would be the standard weblog tool.

Importat media files should be useable in your weblog or other areas
more easily - no need to use cheetah code, but maybe automatically
created shortcuts like in Radio Userland. The shortcut would
automatically render the right HTML code to include the media file
inline into the code: img tags with pictures and object tags with MP3 or
MPG stuff.

That's what I am currently thinking about. Don't know when I come around
to implement that, though. Especially since it get's a bit more
complicated if you want to include meta information from the media files
(like EXIF header stuff with pictures) and want to provide better layout
control on how your media files are rendered (positioning of images in
your text for example).

bye, Georg