Random notes on the upcoming CherryPy release

[Carlos Ribeiro]

Hi all,

It was good to see everyone involved today, and I'm really sorry for
not being able to help to make the release in time. I'll try to
compensate it a little bit with the following remarks:

-- One of the issues that barred progress was the CRLF to LF
conversion. Unfortunately, the tip to use the svn:eol-style property
came just at the end of the effort (see [1]). I've done a little work
on this, and I hope that the following recipe proves useful:

Linux: ~/.subversion/config
Windows: /%APPDATA%\Subversion\config

Add the following lines:

[auto-props]
*.py = svn:eol-style=LF
README.* = svn:eol-style=CRLF

[miscellany]
global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* .DS_Store *.pyc

This configuration makes Subversion automatically convert line endings
for Python & README files. It also makes Subversion ignore the pyc
files, which are right now a problem, because they're always listed as
"not-versioned".

-- It was pointed out that the home page is not very attractive as it
is now. My proposal is to implement the new home page in... CherryPy
itself, and from them, link to the trac site. CP is approaching the
point where it can be relied upon for this purpose. In fact, if used
behind a caching proxy (squid? or something newer & better),
scalability is probably not going to be an issue unless it is heavily
slashdotted.

-- As for the docs - I'm writing some docs right now. I may be able to
send a introduction to CherryPy before this year ends. (Well, I know
that my track record at beating deadlines does not look pretty now,
but I really intend to improve it!).

----
[1] http://www.sipfoundry.org/tools/svn-tips.html#line-ends

--
Carlos Ribeiro
Consultoria em Projetos
blog: http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com
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[Remco Boerma]

Carlos Ribeiro wrote:

>It was good to see everyone involved today,
>

Yeah.. the lovely warm gloomy feeling you get, just like eating a good
out-of-the-oven cherrypie :)

>-- One of the issues that barred progress was the CRLF to LF
>conversion. Unfortunately, the tip to use the svn:eol-style property
>came just at the end of the effort (see [1]).
>

I'm sorry, (it was me, i gave the tip, at the end, after writing scripts
to solve it... - yeah, blame me :) )
I think we all thought everyone else would have asked google....

>[miscellany]
>global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* .DS_Store *.pyc
>
>This configuration makes Subversion automatically convert line endings
>for Python & README files. It also makes Subversion ignore the pyc
>files, which are right now a problem, because they're always listed as
>"not-versioned".
>
>

If you use the turtoise, you can set this for yourself as well. .

>-- It was pointed out that the home page is not very attractive as it
>is now. My proposal is to implement the new home page in... CherryPy
>itself, and from them, link to the trac site.
>

I agree. . But isn't it true we should make heavy use of the Wiki in
there?! I think it would be real cherrypyish
to have the tutorials on the wiki pages, and have everyone help maintain
these tutorials.

>-- As for the docs - I'm writing some docs right now. I may be able to
>send a introduction to CherryPy before this year ends. (Well, I know
>that my track record at beating deadlines does not look pretty now,
>but I really intend to improve it!).
>
>

I think it's great that everyone want to be involved in writing the
docs. How many projects have not had
this as their pitfall. ?!? After the charming CP1 tutorial, we will now
have a complete and thorough documentation
because at least 4 (!) people want to get involved. .

Cheers!

Remco