Friday, January 15, 2016

A new place for hosting lino sites

I got my first virtual private server at ovh.com instantiated:

              `.-:/mmmmmm/:.`
          `./shmmmmmmmmmmmmmhs/.`
        .+hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmh+`
      `odmmmmmmmmmmmmymmmmmmmmmmmmd+`
     /dmmmmmmmmmmmmmo`ommmmmmmmmmmmmh:
   `+mmmmmmmmmmmmmms` `ommmmmmmmmmmmmm/
   /mmmmmmmmmmmmmmy`   `ymmmmmmmmmmmmmm/
  .mmmmmmmmmmmmmmy.     .hmmmmmmmmmmmmmd.
  +mmmmmmmmmmmmmd.       .dmmmmmmmmmmmmm+
  ymmmmmmmmmmmmd-     dmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmms
  ymmmmmmmmmmmm:      dmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmms
  ommmmmmmmmmm/       dmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm+
  .mmmmmmmmmm+`             .ommmmmmmmmd.
   +mmmmmmmmo`               `ommmmmmmm/
   `+mmmmmmy-.................-hmmmmmm/`
     /dmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmd:
      .odmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmdo.
        ..:-:+++/::/sss/::++++:-:..
          ```-::/+++///+++/::-.``
            `---:///:::///:---`
                -:::++/:::.
                `..-///-..`
                   `:::`
                   ````
admin@serveur-1:~$

Installing Lino to this. Nice to see that their Debian still has Python 2 as default. A first observation is that it event doesn’t have pip installed, so here we go:

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  binutils build-essential cpp cpp-4.9 dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-4.9 gcc gcc-4.9 libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libasan1
  libatomic1 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libcilkrts5 libcloog-isl4 libdpkg-perl libfakeroot libfile-fcntllock-perl libgcc-4.9-dev libgomp1 libisl10 libitm1 liblsan0 libmpc3
  libmpfr4 libquadmath0 libstdc++-4.9-dev libtimedate-perl libtsan0 libubsan0 linux-libc-dev make manpages-dev patch python-colorama python-distlib python-html5lib
  python-wheel
Suggested packages:
  binutils-doc cpp-doc gcc-4.9-locales debian-keyring g++-multilib g++-4.9-multilib gcc-4.9-doc libstdc++6-4.9-dbg gcc-multilib autoconf automake libtool flex bison gdb
  gcc-doc gcc-4.9-multilib libgcc1-dbg libgomp1-dbg libitm1-dbg libatomic1-dbg libasan1-dbg liblsan0-dbg libtsan0-dbg libubsan0-dbg libcilkrts5-dbg libquadmath0-dbg
  glibc-doc libstdc++-4.9-doc make-doc ed diffutils-doc python-genshi
Recommended packages:
  python-dev-all
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  binutils build-essential cpp cpp-4.9 dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-4.9 gcc gcc-4.9 libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libasan1
  libatomic1 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libcilkrts5 libcloog-isl4 libdpkg-perl libfakeroot libfile-fcntllock-perl libgcc-4.9-dev libgomp1 libisl10 libitm1 liblsan0 libmpc3
  libmpfr4 libquadmath0 libstdc++-4.9-dev libtimedate-perl libtsan0 libubsan0 linux-libc-dev make manpages-dev patch python-colorama python-distlib python-html5lib
  python-pip python-wheel
0 upgraded, 43 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 49.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 144 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Note that this is maybe a reason to start making Lino available using easier system.

Printing sales invoices

There are still some subtle problems when printing sales invoices with multi-line descriptions.

One problem is that it is currently not possible to edit a multi-line text field in a rich (HTML) text editor. For the first pilot user this is not a problem, they will probably even prefer to have some simple markup. This is because they want to edit their descriptions in a grid.

Other users might prefer to have a rich description, but those users will probably not want to edit that in the grid. Because there is not enough room. They will prefer to have a detail_layout per line. So it should be locally changeable by setting textfield_format.

Another more subtle and more serious problem is when injecting the HTML (either from the rich editor or generated from markup) into the LibreOffice template to be used by appy.pod. This will always be limited by the limitations in lino.utils.html2odt

So I started to think about trying #692, and had a look at wkhtmltopdf.