On Feb 6, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Jeremy Slade wrote:
Mr. Meitar Moscovitz wrote:
On Feb 6, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Jeremy Slade wrote:
I've been using laconica for a couple weeks now, and it's been
working
well -- props to the team.
My instance is deployed in a corporate internet, so there are a
number
of features that simply don't make sense (SMS, twitter integration).
It's easiest to deal with just by hacking references to those things
out of the rendered html.
Problem is, I first deployed on 0.6.4.3, and today I'm moving to
0.7.0, and I have to do the same changes all over again...
If that doesn't let you get rid of the things you want, you probably
should set up a "vendor branch" of Laconica and keep your changes in
your own branch. Merge new official versions of Laconica into your
own
changed branch. This is what I do for projects I need to segregate in
that way, and it works a treat. (Especially with git.)
I am working in my own branch and merging in from the official
laconica
upstream repository pulled into the master branch. In theory that
works
fine (and git certainly helps make it easier than I've experienced
with
other scm systems). But as stated, because of the significant changes
between 0.6.4.3 and 0.7.0, I had to re-apply all my changes -- every
thing I had changed conflicted with remote changes in the merge.
Yeah, I do hear that….
Having a more well-defined MVC architecture wouldn't prevent that, but
could help to reduce the scope of the conflicts.
Jeremy
No argument there. And again, I recall some discussion of a templating
engine for Laconica, but I think the resolution was that CSS + hooks
is going to be the way forward. I'm not a huge fan of templating
systems, myself, and especially considering how many other output
sources Laconica needs to interact with (i.e., Twitter, XMPP, SMS, and
so forth), I imagine that focusing on *visual rendering* too much is
likely going to be detrimental to the project's progress.
But that's really more of Evan's territory than mine. See, for
example, this thread from December:
http://mail.laconi.ca/pipermail/laconica-dev/2008-December/000644.html
Cheers,
-Meitar Moscovitz
Personal: http://maymay.net
Professional: http://MeitarMoscovitz.com
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