[Twisted-web] Re: OSS Nevow blog ?

Thomas Raschbacher lordvan at lordvan.com
Sun Jun 25 10:19:21 CDT 2006


Hi.

I was wondering if you are considering making more than one storage
backend (in particular using axiom).

are you willing to let me have the code (yet)?

Regards

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:22:11 +0200, Adrian Perez wrote:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> This is my first post to the twisted-web mailing list, so let me say
> some words about myself first. Name's Adrian and I'm from Spain. I'm
> studying Computer Science (this one is my fifth year -- I hope to
> graduate soon) and I've always been interested in Python; unfortunately
> there's no much people at my University using it...
> 
> I used to have a website I set up on top of Zope but my homemade
> webserver just blew up two months ago. I've been trying some web
> development frameworks since then because I find Zope too heavy for my
> purposes. After taking a quick look at Django, TurboGears (which I
> found quite interesting) and CherryPy I discovered Nevow -- and decided
> to go on with it. I subscribed to this list some weeks ago but I have
> been just «hearing» what other people had to say.
> 
> "Thomas Raschbacher" <lordvan at lordvan.com> wrote:
> 
>> so I assume that means that there is no nevow blog yet ..
> 
> Well, it does not exist... «yet». I'm currently starting to code a
> weblog using Nevow. I currently have a working prototype with nearly
> no features I made in two afternoons. I'm happy Nevow was quite easy
> to start working with -- my previous experience learning Zope was a
> hell.
> 
> The weblog is named «Bic» (like a mythical brand of ball pens which
> exists here in Spain, http://www.bicworld.com/), and this is a quick
> summary of the features I want it to have:
> 
>  - reStructuredText for writing posts, and maybe comments too.
>    (http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html)
> 
>  - Data is stored on-disk as flat plaintext files. If this proves being
>    slow, maybe caching pre-rendered reStructuredText and/or having a
>    cache of the filesystem contents is acceptable for me.
> 
>  - Articles are categorized by using «tags». I'm not sure how I will
>    blend this with the plaintext storage, but I don't consider this as
>    an important feature.
> 
>  - Support for uploading files (including images, of course).
> 
>  - Serving RSS feeds (of course!)
> 
>  - Support for static pages. This could be as simple as marking an
>    article as static page, or tagging it as «static» if I manage to add
>    support for tags.
> 
>  - Indexing and searching using Xapian (http://www.xapian.org). I think
>    I will use Divmod's Xapwrap for this.
> 
>  - The current default templates are XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.0
>    compliant. I want to make them accesible, too (WAI-AA at least).
> 
>  - Support for localization. I've starting adding it some days ago, and
>    I plan to provide english, spanish and galician translations of the
>    user interface.
> 
> Some other features I would like to have (but which I consider less
> important):
> 
>  - Stylesheet may be changed «on the fly» (e.g. a high contrast
>    stylesheet would useful for people with vision problems if they can
>    select it while browsing).
> 
>  - In the future I would like to extend this to have some special URI
>    segments translated (e.g. using «/search/foo» in english and
>    «/buscar/foo» in spanish).
> 
>  - Support for pluggable text converters, so articles may be written
>    not only in reStructuredText (e.g. wiki syntax, plain ol' HTML...)
> 
>  - Some XML-RPC APIs, so posts may be done from blogging clients. 
> 
>  - ...some other?
> 
> Currently I'm using Python 2.4, Twisted 2.4, Twisted-Web 0.6, Docutils
> 0.4 and Nevow 0.8 as development environment.
> 
> Of course, all comments, proposals, etc. are welcome. I can notify you
> of my progress on this list, if you want.
> 
> Cheers,





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