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  • From: Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] no release
  • Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:07:44 +0100

Chad Knepp wrote:

Sorry, I'm not going to meet my self-imposed deadline today or even
before mid-week (Wednesday is my new goal). Things are going well
mentally and I've been able to do more good work in the last couple of
days than previously, but still due to a slow start and various events
(wild party last night) and other duties I'm just not getting at the
hacking time I had hoped... so far averaging only a little over 2.5
hours a day.

Cool we not even at the "take initial estimate, double it and at 10% stage" yet.

So far I've written an ObjectManger like class to handle HGObjects
that uses BTrees that auto-determines and guarantees unique ids.

Eak, sounds complicated! A good one for the testing dept.

> I've
also written a generic HGObject as well as a limited (only name
attributes at the moment) Plant object and some simple interfaces for
HGObject and Plant.
Cool.

The hardest part and seemingly the slowest is all the fiddly bits of
getting the basic app wired up in Zope correctly (ClassSecurityInfo is
a nightmare). Fortunately I think I'm mostly there and am currently
writing the basic management zpts. After that I can develop actual HG
objects and the necessary functionality. One of the nice things about
Zope is that I don't have to write anything to handle users because
it's already there.

Can't say I'm suprised, hopefully once these bits are sorted
and your up the learning curve things will go smoother.

Anyway, Rich will be happy to hear that I've been doing a top notch
job of documentation as well and the initial release will include a
nice 'epydoc'ed html tree of the classes which is nice additionally
because it documents the super classes as well, giving a clearer
picture of some of the crazy inheritance trees.

Nice one. V important for a few years down the line.

Anyway, not there yet, but will have something very soon.

Sounds like progress has been good.

Happy hacking

Rich
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