Re: pyblosxom 3000

Bill Mill wrote:
<snip>
 >
 > 3) Unit tests - I've never written unit tests, nor do I know how one
 > would test such an application as pyblosxom. Anyone want to step up?
 >

I've also been thinking about this and have a few ideas. I'll try to 
wrap them up in code and post them.

> 
> 4) Contrib stuff - Will's still asking for a contrib maintainer. I
> can't reliably concentrate on anything for more than 5 minutes, so I
> don't want to volunteer. Anyone?

As I'm not working fulltime atm and therefore have enough free time I 
guess I could do this. Can someone describe what exactly the contrib 
maintainer is supposed to do?

> 
> 5) Comment Administrator - I have one that works, more or less, except
> it can't change the dates on comments. This is because I want to
> change the comments module to use the date field inside the comments
> file instead of the time embedded in the filename.

Cool, I was thinking about hacking something like that together. 
Courious how you did it.

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> 
> 7) mod_python / WSGI integration - Didn't somebody submit a patch/some
> patches that do this? Are we going to try and integrate it for 1.2? I
> think it's a good idea.
> 
> A quick search shows
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10250388 .
> Steven, you still hanging around here? Want to step up for the effort
> to patch it in?
> 
> I'd like to start running this on my personal blog.

Yeah, I'm still here ;-)
A few issues/thoughts I bumped into while implementing the 
WSGI/mod_python stuff:

There are quit a few modules/plugins that directly access sys.stdin and 
sys.stdout. This turned out to be a problem for the WSGI/mod_python 
approach.
For example, mod_python requires the content-type to be set in a special 
way on the mod_python request instance. If a module/plugin writes it 
directly to sys.stdout it messes up everything. Similar if a 
module/plugin reads directly from sys.stdin.

Another problem I had was with how the outputstream/renderer stuff 
works. For example in my nospam plugin I implemented the cb_handle 
callback to generate and write out the human-verification-image.
As the renderer is not set at this stage, the only way to add headers 
and write data was to directly use stdout. This again fucked up mod_python.

I think it would be a good idea to split the outputstream handling from 
the renderer. Let the renderer generate the content and use a seperat 
object to handle all output related stuff (e.g. add headers and write 
the response).

Something like:
response = request.getResponse()
response.addHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain')
response.write("Hello World")

Can we change PyBlosxom to work like this? Would make my life easier.

cheers
Steven


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