Tuesday, September 26, 2017

I continued to work on #36 (Python 3 support).

I released Atelier version 1.0.11.

Travis reminded me that building the Lino Welfare docs requires the lino_book. Oh my god, how big Lino is! It’s not a bug and not a design flaw but about where to document things.

How to fix this? Merge the welfare docs into the book? Or leave them separate, as an example of a big Lino application which lives a completely independent life? Merging it would also fix the (small) problem that coachings : Managing coachings is a bit incomplete because the Coaching model is actually not used in Lino Avanti (the only other application besides welfare that uses coachings).

No, we don’t merge, we leave welfare independent because it is really very specific to Belgium. And a quick fix is to add lino_book to the requirements.txt file of welfare. If a future maintainer doesn’t like that dependence, they would have to remove from the welfare docs about 21 intersphinx links which refer to book.

I also tried to get rid of the std demo project in welfare. One place which needs it is the conf.py of the welfare docs. The challenge here is that autodoc needs to import all modules, and Django isn’t very collaborative when it’s about defining model classes for plugins which aren’t installed.

A common problem is that autosummary doesn’t say why it failed to import some module:

$ inv bd
...
Warning, treated as error:
[autosummary] failed to import u'lino_welfare.chatelet.lib.courses.models': no module named lino_welfare.chatelet.lib.courses.models

The easiest trick to see what’s happening is to simulate the situation:

>>> from lino import startup
>>> startup('lino_welfare.projects.eupen.settings.demo')
>>> import lino_welfare.chatelet.lib.courses.models

Here is the output:

File "blog/docs/blog/2017/0926.rst", line 55, in 0926.rst
Failed example:
import lino_welfare.chatelet.lib.courses.models
Exception raised:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "atelier/atelier/utils.py", line 60, in __getattr__
    return self[name]
KeyError: 'courses'
<BLANKLINE>
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
<BLANKLINE>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/doctest.py", line 1321, in __run
    compileflags, 1), test.globs)
  File "<doctest 0926.rst[2]>", line 1, in <module>
    import lino_welfare.chatelet.lib.courses.models
  File "welfare/lino_welfare.chatelet.lib/courses/models.py", line 28, in <module>
    from lino_xl.lib.courses.models import *
  File "xl/lino_xl/lib/courses/models.py", line 49, in <module>
    from .choicelists import EnrolmentStates, CourseStates, ActivityLayouts
  File "xl/lino_xl/lib/courses/choicelists.py", line 84, in <module>
    add('C', dd.plugins.courses.verbose_name, 'default')
  File "atelier/atelier/utils.py", line 64, in __getattr__
    name, ', '.join(list(self.keys()))))
AttributeError: AttrDict instance has no key 'courses' (keys are ...)

Above case is BTW where I abandoned for this time.