Re: Django client

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Torsten Bronger
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hallöchen!
>
> Bruce D'Arcus writes:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> So what, then, are relevant class models you are thinking of?
>
> The low-level Python module will implement the classes Reference and
> ReferenceList.  Reference itself contains the classes Part,
> Publication, Set, PubInfo, LibInfo, and Author.  The other elements
> and attributes of RISX are realised through class attributes.

Sounds good. I'd change Author to something more generic though
(Contributor) and maybe subclass it if necessary.

>> Might there be a way to design them in such a way that someone
>> could later use a Django-native model instead (for those that
>> don't want to install RefDB)?
>
> No.  I cannot -- and don't want to -- re-engineer the 1,000,000 LOC
> of RefDB.  On the contrary, the current plan is to have no database
> models in the Django app at all.

No, that's not what I'm saying (though reimplementing a good chunk of
what RefDB does in Python/Django would require hundreds of lines; not
a million). I was more just wondering if it'd be possible to leave
room for others to do that later.

But that might be a bad idea.

>> BTW, awhile back I started working on a collection of little Django
>> apps to manage my own academic content. The "document" app model code
>> is here:
>>
>> <http://github.com/bdarcus/django-scholar/blob/7c06b6b2fd8cda77299e25406d6dc163a8e6ec71/documents/models.py>
>>
>> I went with a much lighter-weight alternative though, so gave up working on it.
>>
>> <http://github.com/bdarcus/mysite/tree/master>
>
> Nice, but this looks very different, more like a scholar version of
> a Personal Information Manager.  ;)

Correct.

Bruce

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