20120102

lino.core.kernel.setup_site() now adds a new attribute modules which makes it easy to directly address the installed modules. This is going to replace resolve_action.

Checkin

And then another internal change that took me more than a day: Actors no longer get instantiated. Application code simply uses the class object itself where there used to be a singleton instance.

The lino.utils.menus.Menu.add_action() method (which is used heavily in lino.Lino.setup_menu() and lino.Lino.setup_quicklinks()) now gets the Actor’s class instead of a string. That’s more readable and probably also more efficient (which is not unimportant since these methods are called for every request).

One detail which I didn’t like so much is that application programmers must not forget to decorate their overridden Table class methods as @classmethod.

Checkin 2012-02-03 at 21:15 (the unit test suite is almost okay).

I plan to also convert TableRequest to Table instances.