python2.7 is what we should depend on. libpython2.7-stdlib a dependency
for python2.7 contains all the standard libraries. libpython2.7, I believe, is
required only for using python modules written in C.
Simplejson is an externally mainainted version of json library available in
Python 2.6 and up. It supports Python 2.5 which were are not targetting.
It also boasts better speed which is not at all a factor for us.
Twitter Bootstrap provides good styling for forms. Our current
theme does not ouput forms in bootstrap styles although for
everything else, it does. The python-bootstrap from is a simple
Django helper application to render Django forms into bootstrap
theme.
Django forms themselves provide numerous advantages over the
current incomplete homegrown solution. It also has solutions for
problems such as CSRF attacks which the current application is
vulnerable to.
- Basic information about each service is available for consumers
- Information about whether service is enabled or disabled is available
- Interested parties may listen to enabling/disabling of a service
- Information about some core services are made available
- contract module has not see a release since 2010
- Corresponding PEP has been deferred
- python-contract module in Debian is orphaned
- We are only using contract module in one method of one module
- That can be replaced with one line of check instead of depending on an
entire module
- The code using contract module does not work
- There is already replacement one line code that is actually working
James added the Apache Headers module to the makefile, but not the
FreedomBox-Setup configuration script. However, it's ridiculous to
have multiple locations for that same logic, so now the makefile uses
the setup script for the Apache configuration instead.
Also, the modules are now fancy and alphabetized.
There's no point to having two copies of what's essentially the same
file. In the long term, this means the distributions will need to
patch out cfg.py directories instead of plinth.sample.fhs.config. So,
if diff plinth.sample.config plinth.sample.fhs.config reveals
anything relevant, put that in your patch.
Apache configuration was missing a few modules, and the server needs
to be restarted after those modules are enabled. Also, the server
needs to be reloaded after the Plinth site is enabled.
Author: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@debian.org>
Description: These things are easier to install with dh
* Python modules: fighting with dh_python2 is tough
(it changes the /etc/ symlink, for isntance)
* Let's just install man pages ourselves for now.
* symlinks: with dh_link
The makefile has three new targets:
1. hosting: Publish repository and automagically build the archives to
serve to clients.
2. current-checkout.tar.gz: Create an archive of the current project
directory.
3. current-repository.tar.gz: Create an archive of the current project
directory along with the source repository metadata so that the
archive is a full checkout of the project.
* change to u. notation for util, since from foo import * is evil
* make import vendor.foo possible
* vendor dir is part of the repo now, no need to mkdir
* use the vendor.foo notation
