Re: Thoughts on comments package

On Feb 13, 2004, at 7:21 AM, will guaraldi wrote:

> All of that can be done with the existing Pyblosxom framework without 
> any
> problems (you'd implement a renderer for the xmlrpc output).  We could
> make it more efficient (Ted mentioned that it's kind of silly to have a
> trackback error go all the way through the Pyblosxom pipeline) by
> implementing a handle callback which would get called before the 
> pathinfo
> callback.  The handle callback would call all the functions registered 
> and
> ask them if they want to handle the request (i.e.  processing the 
> request
> all the way through producing output).  If they handle it, they return 
> 1
> and we're done.  We move the existing blosxom processing to a
> handleBlosxomProcessing callback.
>

Sounds to me like you're planning to change the framework (add new 
callbacks).
But I'm curious to see how it comes out.

> My first blush examination is that this is easy to implement.  I was
> planning on putting this together and taking it through its paces to 
> see
> how easy it is to implement.
>

I thought about this some more, and it's probably not too bad.  Before 
you
do this, could you check in the current version of the xmlrpc stuff you 
are
working on?

>
> The thing I dislike about Pyblosxom right now is that for a user to 
> add a
> plugin, there's 1) no standard way to let the user know what 
> configuration
> changes they need to make, and 2) no good way of letting the user know
> that the plugin is misconfigured.
>

In general, we don't do well with errors that happen inside the system. 
  It
was 9 days before I realized that autoping was still broken.  I'm 
thinking of
hacking cgitb to use a logger -- that way we could log those traces more
flexibly.


> I think that problem needs to get solved by 1.0--even if it's a 
> business
> process change as opposed to a code change.
>

I agree
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