[FM Discuss] Is Booki software available?

adam adam at xs4all.nl
Sat Sep 18 00:27:54 PDT 2010


yo :)

very nice comments!

can I encourage you to join the dev list?
http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/booki-dev-flossmanuals.net

if you could re-post this there that would be super :)

adam


On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 20:14 -0400, Alexandre Quessy wrote:
> Hello!
> A few more comments:
> 
>  * Make sure your package is named "booki", and not "lib". (use from
> booki import ...)
> 
>  * the config file could be a ConfigParser document, not a .py file.
> (XML is fine too. JSON doesn't support comments) In Python, it's
> pretty easy to support many locations for such a file. It could check
> in both /etc/booki.conf the ~/.booki, and some environment variables
> for example. The latter overrides the former.
> 
>  * You should put the short version of the GPL with copyright owner to
> each Python file.
> 
>  * I think it's right to put the version number of the library in its
> __init__.py. You can read that from the setup.py
> 
>  * You should favour installing dependencies using the OS' packaging
> system (such as APT) if possible. There are Debian packages for
> python-redis, python-simplejson (now in the core Python stuff, though)
> and python-django.
> 
> This is all from mostly from a packager's point of view - not much
> from a developer one.
> I might package this to Debian if the packaging is clean enough. :)
> 
> Cheers,





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