On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:56:15 +0200 Ole Martin Bjørndalen ole.martin.bjorndalen@uit.no wrote:
Hi,
Hi Ole Martin, good to hear from you again, it's been a while!
A full blueprint with a link to the code and examples can be found here:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nav/+spec/tool-installerIs there any interest in such a tool?
Sure, I think such a tool has its place. Anything that would ease people into writing their own add-ons to NAV is nice. Not that I currently know many users besides UiT who do this, but such a tool might help with that.
We would have to do a proper code review before accepting this into NAV, though. I only gave the code a cursory glance just now, and I think your add-ons will be in trouble with NAV 3.15.
The upcoming NAV 3.15 release completely removes NAV's dependency on mod_python (save for an optional module that can be used to have NAV authenticate and authorize any resouce served by Apache, which we will use on our client installations). This means any 3rd party code that still uses mod_python and the old NAV session machinery will not be compatible with NAV 3.15
NAV 3.15 also tosses out Cheetah completely, in favor of Django templates. This means that any Cheetah templates you have that inherit from NAV's base templates will no longer work.
Assuming you ditch the old tech in your own code, the install tool may become a lot simpler. I have some ideas of my own, but I'd rather hear your comments and read your code first.
We've grown quite fond of using Bitbucket for code reviews via pull requests. You should probably fork my NAV mirror repository [1] there for any further (public) work you might want to do on NAV.
[1] https://bitbucket.org/mbrekkevold/nav-mirror