Re: tbpy plugin idea

Thanks for the heads up Wari and Ted, I'm going to poke around in the 
comments plugin before I do anything rash like reinventing the wheel - 
just as soon as I kick out all the vendors who've been besieging  my 
office this week. The critical point for me will be if the functionality 
can be enabled without turning comments on...

>>Sorry to reply this late that you have to resend :)

It's not you or any of the other good folks here at all. Sourceforge is taking 5-12 hours to publish my email to the list and I resent my first email because I thought the problem was on my end...

--L

Wari Wahab wrote:

>Hi there, Lance.
>
>On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 04:18, Lance Weber wrote:
>  
>
>>I've gotten basic trackback functionality working on my blog via tbpy.
>>http://www.alfheimstudios.com/blog/blogspace/trackback.html
>>    
>>
>
>Nice, I've always wanted to do something with tbpy in the past
>
>  
>
>>As I state in the above post, I'd really like tighter integration 
>>between pyblosxom and tbpy, especially for accessing and managing the tb 
>>entries, so here's some ideas for a tbpyb plugin:
>>   * Returns a count of trackbacks for the current entry
>>   * Exposes the rss trackbacks for the current entry as xml and html
>>   * Stores config variables for tbpy settings like url, data dir for 
>>embedding the RDF entries in your flav templates and accessing the rss 
>>tbpy files.
>>
>>I have a couple of questions for the group before I charge down this path:
>>1) Has this already been done? Is this a desirable featureset to the 
>>group at large?
>>    
>>
>
>Yes and no, no as in we have not done anything on tbpy. Yes as in the
>functionality is somewhat mirrored in the comments plugin suite that is
>included with the pyblosxom distribution. Ted Leung started this by
>looking at tbpy first, though not copying the code at all (Ted, am I
>right?). I do rather call the comments plugin a feedback plugin instead
>because it handles more than comments. Here's a list of features:
>
> * Integrated with pyblosxom
> * Designed with pyblosxom in mind
> * Keeps entries as RSS item in a seperate file
> * Trackbacks
> * Pingbacks
> * CommentAPI
> * Standard form comments
> * And as a feature: Not easy to install ;)
>
>  
>
>>2) The complexity appears to be low enough for "My First Python 
>>Project", as I'm just going to be reading some rss/xml files in the tbpy 
>>data directory and generating html from them. True?
>>    
>>
>
>Yeah, almost true. Complexity really depends on how you read the xml
>data, deriving useful information from it. I believe that reading XML
>data as is can be slow, especially when doing simple things like
>counting the number of comments in an entry. Which is why the comment
>plugin stores every comment in a different file based on timestamps.
>Easier to count that way, and need not worry about metadata in the RSS
>that tbpy produces.
>
>  
>
>>3) Am I missing some critical design/architecture flaw in this premise?
>>    
>>
>
>Not that I know of.
>
>  
>
>>Any feedback appreciated! --L
>>    
>>
>
>Sorry to reply this late that you have to resend :)
>
>
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004
>Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration
>See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA.
>http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn
>_______________________________________________
>pyblosxom-users mailing list
>pyblosxom-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyblosxom-users
>  
>




-------------------------------------------------------
The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004
Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration
See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA.
http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn