20111020

Meeting with Gaëtan Delannay. We comparend Lino and his appy.gen framework.

Lino versus appy.gen

• ´appy.gen´ uses the ZODB while Lino uses SQL databases.

• Lino application are rather traditional desktop applications that moved to the web, while ´appy.gen´ application are rather database-driven dynamic websites.

• Lino does not (yet) offer “workflows”. Gaëtan explains what workflows are:

  The security model behinds gen-applications is similar to what Zope and Plone offer; simply, gen tries to simplify the way to declare and manage security within your applications. According to this model, users are put into groups; groups have some roles; roles are granted basic permissions on objects (create, read, write, delete, etc). Permissions-to-roles mappings may vary according to the state of objects.

  (http://appyframework.org/genSecurityAndWorkflows.html)

Connecting to the BCSS

Gaëtan also explained me how he would generate the XML of BCSS requests.

His method is much simpler than Dave’s generateDS!

We added /lino/sandbox/bcss/test3.py and /lino/sandbox/bcss/test4.py.

Wrote a patch for appy.shared.xml_parser.