Re: Re: Announce: Website In A Box

Kieren Diment wrote:
> On 22/03/07, Neil de Carteret <n3dst4gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 20/03/07, Kieren Diment <dimentgmail.com> wrote:
>> > OK, some people pointed out problems with the
Makefile.PL and the
>> structure
>> > of the tarball, so there's already a 0.011
release at
>> > http://websiteinabox.googlecode.com/files/WIAB-0.011.
tar.gz
>>
>> I've just starting having a play with it.
>>
>> How do you envisage upgrades working? That is, how
do I not munge my
>> page about my cats when I svn up?
> 
> 
> 
> Well, if you keep your own branch and make sure that
you don't merge
> wiab.yml, auth.txt or root/content, everything should
be right for now.
> Speaking of which at some point I'll have to put some
code to store
> diffs of
> each page as well 

Funny. I currently loathe this practice, and I blame
myself.
On any other system, I can change things without doing
source merges
when an upgrade comes out. So why do good Cat apps have to
be any
different. The more I work on Mango, the more I have people
just using
and changing the app, rather than making it all base
software, with
creation-isms, like catalyst.pl. the more I hate it.

The killer is the templates. Custom app modules can inherit
from Base
software modules. Templates can't...easily, if all. If we
could figure
that out, all would be better imho.

-=Chris




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Christopher H. Laco wrote:
> Kieren Diment wrote:
>> On 22/03/07, Neil de Carteret <n3dst4gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 20/03/07, Kieren Diment <dimentgmail.com> wrote:
>>>> OK, some people pointed out problems with
the Makefile.PL and the
>>> structure
>>>> of the tarball, so there's already a 0.011
release at
>>>> http://websiteinabox.googlecode.com/files/WIAB-0.011.
tar.gz
>>> I've just starting having a play with it.
>>>
>>> How do you envisage upgrades working? That is,
how do I not munge my
>>> page about my cats when I svn up?
>>
>>
>> Well, if you keep your own branch and make sure
that you don't merge
>> wiab.yml, auth.txt or root/content, everything
should be right for now.
>> Speaking of which at some point I'll have to put
some code to store
>> diffs of
>> each page as well 
> 
> Funny. I currently loathe this practice, and I blame
myself.
> On any other system, I can change things without doing
source merges
> when an upgrade comes out. So why do good Cat apps have
to be any
> different. The more I work on Mango, the more I have
people just using
> and changing the app, rather than making it all base
software, with
> creation-isms, like catalyst.pl. the more I hate it.
> 
> The killer is the templates. Custom app modules can
inherit from Base
> software modules. Templates can't...easily, if all. If
we could figure
> that out, all would be better imho.
> 
> -=Chris

Or more to the point... have app supplied templates, and be
able to user
user customized templates in combination with the app
templates...without have to worry about sources, merging,
upgrade, etc...

-=Chris


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