Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed web interface - pyjamas

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Samstag 10 Juli 2010, 15:04:07 schrieb lkcl:
> Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > Am Freitag 09 Juli 2010, 23:43:07 schrieb lkcl:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Luke,
> > 
> > Great to have you here.
> :
> :) thanks.
> 
> Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> >> Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> >> > supposedly going through a language-to-Javascript compiler
> >> > will fail badly in case of a bug
> >> 
> >> this is *precisely* why we have the unit tests, of which there are about
> >> 3,000, and the ultimate aim is to run the entire python regression test
> >> suite (under pyv8 - not in a browser of course).  nothing goes in to the
> >> pyjs compiler without a unit test to back it up.
> >> 
> >> http://pyjs.org/examples/libtest/output/LibTest.html
> > 
> > Good to know. I picked up that argument in the beginning of my research
> > from
> > some website. It might not hold true for pyjamas and was uttered with
> > regards
> > to GWT
> 
> ohh, interesting.  yeah, GWT has massive mindshare (30,000 on the mailing
> list instead of 500) so they kinda have a million monkeys as well as
> several full-time paid up google employees to substitute for unit tests.
> 
> we don't have that luxury, and yes, i did see people complaining about "how
> can i trust pyjs" so i made it an FAQ question.
> 
> libtest saved our bacon a couple of times!
> 
> Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> >> it's very new but pyjsglade does exist.  it's a GUI editing tool,
> >> similar to gtk glade.
> > 
> > Ah. Nice to know. I was told that those tools are mostly  a starting
> > point and
> > when you want to do something more complex you are going to to it by hand
> > anyway.
> 
> pretty much that's what i hear, too.  some of them are code-generators,
> some are "dynamic", some do both.  glade does both (i think).  not sure
> what kees has been up to :)
> 
> basically by "dynamic" what i mean is that the GUI tool is a convenient way
> to create an XML file, something like this:
> < pyjamas.ui.HorizontalPanel Width="100%" >
>    < pyjamas.ui.Label Text="this is a test" />
>    < pyjamas.ui.Button Text="click me" />
>    < pyjamas.ui.Label Text="this is another test" />
> < /pyjamas.ui.HorizontalPanel >
> 
> that would, somewhat blindingly-obviously, create a Horizontal Panel with
> two text labels and a button in between them.  the "creation" of that
> actual HP+labels+button can be either done by handing the XML file to some
> code which parses that XML at *runtime* orrrr you could hand it to a
> *compiler* which spews forth this code:
> 
>  p = HorizontalPanel(Width="100%")
>  p.add(Label(Text="this is a test"))
>  p.add(Button(Text="click me"))
> 
>  and then that auto-generated output gets handed to pyjs (or executed under
> pyjd)
> 
>  you see the difference?
> 
>  this latter is where you have the convenience of being able to go "ok,
> party's over, GUI-builder: my app's beyond your capabilities, i take over
> manually from here".  with the dynamic version where you hand the XML file
> to the application at *runtime* that's a little bit trickier, but you end
> up with far less code to have to wade through.
> 
> it's entirely up to you: whichever is more convenient / easier to
> understand, do it.
> 
> personally i can't stand GUI builders :)
> 
> Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > I did the research to make it easier for someone else to start and to
> > avoid
> > having to do the research. Right now I am more then busy with some GNUmed
> > features to implement.
> > 
> > If anyone else could come up with at proof of concept done in pyjamas
> > that would be great.
> 
> *sigh* let me take a look.  i'll poke around, see what's easy, and at least
> get things started.

there is a subdirectory cherrypy which holds code that does some very basic 
things such as starting a webserver (cherrypy) , creating a login form 
(reading the login info from a config file) and connecting to the database 
(user any-doc, password any-doc)

> 
> *spitting teeth* wtf? :)  135mb download/dependencies on debian/testing,
> including... ruby?? openjdk-6?  guys.. what the heck's going on?  perl
> upgrade, to perl 5.10.1??  *lol* - this is python, right?  you're sure that
> gnumed is in python? :)

Pretty sure. We hear this all the time. GNUmed is not only python. It makes 
use of Latex and a few other goodied. I am not sure where the openjdk stuff 
comes from. my guess is it is pulled in with OpenOffice. So if OOo needs it 
little we can do. Ruby ? I have no clue. Perl upgrade ? I have no clue

> 
> anyway - i'll put a leeetle bit of time in, but as i'm an (almost
> completely unfunded and) independent free software developer, it won't be
> a lot.
> 
Hey. We all know what it is like. So any work is appreciated but noone is 
pressured or lured into doing more then what one can afford (time wise and 
life-wise). So we would be happy but no hard feelings if you cannot do it.

Sebastian