20130203¶
Why is Lino so complex?¶
I sometimes have been asked “Why is Lino so complex? Can’t you split it down into smaller parts?”
One answer is: Lino is rather like Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” than like Mozart’s “Kleine Nachtmusik”…
Another answer is: until now I didn’t have to. There was no reason. Or at least I didn’t see one. Or at least not one that would make up for the “increased administrative work” that would be caused by a split.
But tonight I thought that (1) most Python web application developers don’t care about desktop-like applications. (Daniel, do you also offer an accounting or invoicing applcation for your customers?), and (2) much of my work is due to Django’s missing server startup signal.
Google “django startup signal” comes up with Django ticket #13024 (Signal sent on application startup) in first place. Yes I remember that I saw this ticket long time ago. Oho? They closed it? And it is fixed? “Closing as this is fixed in a branch which needs review. See #3591.”
Django ticket #3591 (add support for custom app_label and verbose_name) seems truly very interesting and truly very complex. I’m looking forward to have it. Django really needs this ticket. But obviously it’s not easy to find a good solution.
After reading all this, I got enlighted on how to split Lino:
lino-tools : Includes lino.core and lino.utils (i.e. my solution to send startup signals, dumpy fixtures, babel fields,…)
lino-admin : lino.ui & Co
lino-framework : lino.modlib and lino.mixins
(–> docs/tickets/74)
Pre-release rush¶
New exception “Oops: %s tries to migrate from version 1.0.12 to 1.0.11 ?!”
After release¶
Fixed: Action “cbss.RetrieveTIGroupsRequests.duplicate_row” failed for Tx25-Anfrage “Tx25-Anfrage #129”: type object ‘RequestStates’ has no attribute ‘blank_item’. Ein Fehlerbericht wurde an den Systemverwalter geschickt.