Tabbycat

Create an alternative to yaki using Repoze technologies.

Features

• All the features supported by Yaki
• Explore the possibility of using available RFC2822 parsers. One possible advantage is having multiline/complex metadata than one supported right now.

Repoze already has a lot of the components required.

• chameleon - templating
• repoze.catalog - searching and tagging
• repoze.folders - folders
• repoze.xmlrpc - remote editing of files
• Use mercurial for automatic file versioning
• Use paste.reloader for watching file changes

Data flow

• file watcher calls file parser
• file parser reads the text files and generates the header and meta information. Populates the folder and catalog.

• repoze.bfg has graph traversal, which is more appropriate than Routing for arbitrarily deep tree structures.

• Allow editing of content through XML-RPC.

• write back data to filesystem on save and call hg commit.

Serve static content through nginx.

$ virtualenv /Users/pradeep/tabbycat
$ cd tabbycat
$ bin/easy_install zc.buildout
$ bin/buildout init
$ wget http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/zc.buildout/trunk/bootstrap/bootstrap.py
$ vim .gitignore

add these lines to .gitignore

.installed.cfg
parts
develop-eggs
bin
eggs
downloads
lib
build
dist

$ bin/easy_install -i http://dist.repoze.org/lemonade/dev/simple repoze.bfg
$ bin/paster create -t bfg_starter

enter projectname. In this case, it was tabbycat.

Create a simple buildout script. I used the one from http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/buildout/

[config]
mypkgs = tabbycat

[buildout]
develop = .
parts = python scripts test

[python]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
interpreter = python
eggs = ${config:mypkgs}

[scripts]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg:scripts
eggs = ${config:mypkgs}

[test]
recipe = zc.recipe.testrunner
eggs = ${config:mypkgs}

run the buildout script to install all the dependencies

$ bin/buildout

2009-04-18

$ mkdir -p tabbydev/src/tabbycat
$ cd tabbydev
$ cp ~/Docuemnts/BSD_LICENSE LICENSE
$ touch README
$ wget http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/zc.buildout/trunk/bootstrap/bootstrap.py
$ cat - > buildout.cfg
[buildout]
parts =
^D
$ touch setup.py
$ touch src/shorturls/__init__.py

$ source ~/bfgdev/bin/activate
$ python bootstrap.py
$ ./bin/buildout