Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Hamza worked on #2765. I tested it and updated the docs in 2018 and Install your Lino developer environment.

Yes, it installs, but when I create a sales invoice and try to print it, I get a SyntaxError: invalid syntax (__init__.py, line 43). This is because of a package pisa. I guess that we can remove this dependency since pisa isn’t used by any production site. Also https://pypi.org/project/pisa/ tells us to switch to xhtml2pdf, which in turn recommends to switch to weasyprint.

The lino_xl.lib.pisa plugin was already deprecated earlier. I deactivated the PisaBuildMethod in lino.modlib.printing.

The lino.modlib.wkhtmltopdf might get deprecated as well some day, but the presence sheet in lino_xl.lib.courses still uses it.

I moved the dependencies for ‘pisa’ and ‘django-wkhtmltopdf’ from lino to book.

I removed appy as dependency from lino and updated appypod : Generate printable documents from odt templates with instructions for installing it manually.

Hamza and I found the explanation for #2768. It was in lino.core.inject.collect_virtual_fields() : If a model defines both a database field and a virtualfield of same name, then the virtualfield must be ignored.