Re: agx: Moving forward

Reinout van Rees wrote:
> Martin Aspeli wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 02:01:34 -0000, Daniel Nouri 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>
> 
>>>  And then its raving use of newlines.
>>
>>
>> mmmm.... I'm normally quite picky about whitespace, and deo is
>> normally  the worst. Deo has made a few fixes lately, and I made some
>> earlier. It  doesn't offend me so much any more.
> 
> 
> Partly it is caused by using DTML for generating the python files. It is
> hard to get the indentation-sensitive python code generated reliably
> with template systems, also with DTML. In that case it is safer to add
> an extra whiteline at certain points.
> 
> I agree that those whitelines can be ugly. Perhaps we need to try even
> harder ;-)

Standard python string substitution should do the job?

>>> Some problems I have with ArchGenXML
>>> generated code arguably originate in how people use it.  This file of
>>> the agx (soon-to-be 'genesis') project itself is a good example of some
>>> of the problems mentioned:
>>>
>>> http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/agx/trunk/transformations/python/pyattributeadapter.py
>>>
>>>
>>> Files like this don't really help.
>>
>>
>> Well sure, but it's obviously a file that isn't finished. How can you 
>> judge a CASE tool by people leaving unfinished files around?
> 
> 
> Agreed. We didn't get to finish it all during the castle sprint. Give us
> a bit of a break, Daniel. Many of the files in that directory are
> clearly just placeholders to indicate functionality, aren't they?
> 
> Just jumping on one or two obvious placeholder files as easy criticism
> targets doens't help.

Those placeholders are rotting.  They're not documented, which makes it
hard to find out what they're really about.

>> Why not just start calling it Genesis right now, then? If Jensens,
>> Phil,  Reinout et. al. agree?
> 
> 
> Hey, I've already called it genesis in the last two messages :-)

Does this count as three votes? ;-)

Daniel



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