Re: a running syncato

On Apr 14, 2004, at 4:39 PM, emf wrote:

> On Apr 12, 2004, at 23:50, darryl wrote:
>
>> 0.8 is not released yet. I am using syncato from CVS (which will 
>> become 0.8) and find it quite stable.
>
> ok... I have syncato from cvs. After many hours of struggling to get 
> all the prerequisites built and installed, I think I have it. The 
> software I used: python 2.3.2/berkely db 4.2.52 / berkeley db xml 
> 1.2.1 / xerces 2.5.0 /bsddb3-4.2.4 / libpathan 1.2 .
>
> Some comments:
>
> * the songlist stylesheets doesn't exist, even though layout.xsl 
> imports it.

Yeah, that's some of my personal site creeping into the dist. I went 
ahead and added it to CVS even though I doubt anyone else would want to 
use it.

> * couple of default dirs don't get made, and the directions don't tell 
> you you need to make them: data/work-dir data/file-dir, ErrorMsgs

What's data/work-dir? I don't remember using that. Syncato should 
automatically create any directories it needs as long as it has 
permissions. ErrorMsgs is I guess a problem when pulling from CVS. I 
added that directory to the repository so it shouldn't happen for 
anyone else.

> * the file locations are kind of obnoxious ... everything is in one 
> giant blob. Why doesn't this use distutils or something to that 
> effect?
>
I consider one giant blob a good thing. :-) If it wasn't for the nasty 
dependencies it'd be much easier to install. If I had my way you'd just 
drop a directory in the FS and it would work. It's obviously no where 
near that now. That being said, if you want to improve things please 
feel free.

> Anyway, after four days it's finally up and running. Now to go in and 
> start replacing all the stylesheets.
>
> My application of syncato should be fairly interesting ... I intend to 
> use it to drive a literary analysis based in semantic markup of the 
> extant body of works that reference Roland (one of Charlemagne's 
> knights & commanders). You'll be able to use the XPath query 
> capabilities of syncato to explore different thematic and structural 
> elements and see how different cultures and different times have 
> reinterpreted the mythos. At least, that's the notion.

Interesting.

>
> I'm going to try to write up some documentation on customizing syncato 
> for possible inclusion in the distribution. Is there any preference as 
> to the format that I use?

Cool, probably just XHTML.

One other thing you might be able to help out with is watching memory 
usage. Both Syncato 0.7 and Berkeley DB XML 1.1.0 were leaking memory 
rather badly. I "think" I fixed Syncato, but I haven't really tested it 
on  a real site. Upgrading DB XML is a pain so I've been putting off 
upgrading my server for quite a while. Darryl is reporting that it's 
still leaking for him, but he's also using an older DB XML.

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