Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread Sam Tregar
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, David Wheeler wrote: > None of Kineticode's customers have reported this problem including > PIRT. And there are several hundred thousand documents behind that, > excluding PIRT. I guess you didn't report it because you couldn't > replicate it. I remember you mentioning it, th

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread David Wheeler
On Aug 11, 2004, at 10:51 PM, Sam Tregar wrote: You must be blessed. There's a whole class of data-loss bugs that I know I reported but neither of us could replicate. Once we decided that 1.4.6 was our last upgrade it seemed like a waste of your time to keep bugging you. A good example would be

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread Sam Tregar
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, David Wheeler wrote: > On Aug 11, 2004, at 9:50 PM, Sam Tregar wrote: > > > How can I be so sure? I've worked with big complex systems running on > > both databases. I've watched Bricolage completely destroy user data > > despite using PostgreSQL's transaction support. > >

Re: OT [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread simran
I'm a * start with postgres approx 1996 - it was out there and simple... * migrated to mysql (for speed) approx 1998 - was gazillions of times faster than postgres (postgres was slooow for the average transaction) * migrated back to postgres approx 2000 - postgres improved vastly in

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread Sam Tregar
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, David Wheeler wrote: > To whom did you report them? I don't recall you running into any bugs, only > features you were used to in MySQL but were missing in PostgreSQL. On the PostgreSQL mailing-list. Two that jump to mind which I'm absolutely sure I reported: - pg_dump pr

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread Mathew Robertson
> > you are kidding right? > > Not at all. That doesn't mean I expect to convince anyone though. > This is the kind of wisdom that usually only comes from experience! I'll ignore that... > > ACID capabilites and all that... > > proper locking semantics... > > long history with native support fo

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread David Wheeler
On Aug 11, 2004, at 9:50 PM, Sam Tregar wrote: How can I be so sure? I've worked with big complex systems running on both databases. I've watched Bricolage completely destroy user data despite using PostgreSQL's transaction support. You did? Why was there never a bug report? I have not seen Brico

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread David Wheeler
On Aug 11, 2004, at 9:04 PM, Sam Tregar wrote: MySQL is, in my opinion, the best free database. It's definitely better than PostgreSQL and I should know, I spent more than a year and a half working with it on the Bricolage project. Of course, how one defines "better" is subjective. Here are a fe

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread David Wheeler
On Aug 11, 2004, at 7:09 PM, Sam Tregar wrote: I expect that Bricolage will be ported to Windows shortly after mod_perl 2 ships with robust thread support (which is unlikely in 2.0.0), especially now that PostgreSQL 8.0 will be Win32 native. Really? I wonder why anyone would bother! Ch-ching. ;-

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread Sam Tregar
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Mathew Robertson wrote: > you are kidding right? Not at all. That doesn't mean I expect to convince anyone though. This is the kind of wisdom that usually only comes from experience! > ACID capabilites and all that... > proper locking semantics... > long history with native

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread Mathew Robertson
you are kidding right? ACID capabilites and all that... proper locking semantics... long history with native support for transactions... proper SQL transaction semantics... As you said, people can make spaghetti out of anything - how this makes MySQL 'better', I dont understand. Mathew > > >

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread Sam Tregar
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Chisel Wright wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:56:08PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote: > > > Also it seems to be MySQL specific. Did I read that wrong? > > > > Nope, you got that right too. > > Out of interest, why MySQL? I know that lack of Postgres support is one > reason tha

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread Sam Tregar
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, David Wheeler wrote: > I expect that Bricolage will be ported to Windows shortly after mod_perl 2 > ships with robust thread support (which is unlikely in 2.0.0), especially now > that PostgreSQL 8.0 will be Win32 native. Really? I wonder why anyone would bother! -sam ---

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread Peter Leonard
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Chisel Wright wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:56:08PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote: Also it seems to be MySQL specific. Did I read that wrong? Nope, you got that right too. Out of interest, why MySQL? I know that lack of Postgres support is one reason that we didn't consider Kran

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread David Wheeler
On Aug 11, 2004, at 3:56 PM, Sam Tregar wrote: Yes, and of course. Very little software written for Unix-esque systems (like Krang and Bricolage) works on Windows. I don't see any reason why it couldn't be made to work on Windows, but I see very little reason to do so! I expect that Bricolage wil

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread Chisel Wright
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:56:08PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote: > > Also it seems to be MySQL specific. Did I read that wrong? > > Nope, you got that right too. Out of interest, why MySQL? I know that lack of Postgres support is one reason that we didn't consider Krang recently when looking for a co

Re: [htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread Sam Tregar
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Robert wrote: > I noticed a couple of things from the site. I don't see it working on > Windows using Apache? Is this possible? Yes, and of course. Very little software written for Unix-esque systems (like Krang and Bricolage) works on Windows. I don't see any reason why it

[htmltmpl] Re: eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread Robert
"Sam Tregar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, David Wheeler wrote: > > > On Aug 10, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Sam Tregar wrote: > > > > > Here's a comparison of Krang and an older version of Bricolage: > > > > > > http://krang.sf.net/docs/krang_vs_bric.ht

Re: [htmltmpl] Question about syntax

2004-08-11 Thread Pete Prodoehl
Chisel Wright wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:26:39AM -0500, Brad Cathey wrote: Initially I was a strict comments-only syntax user. Over the years I've changed my view a little. I now use comments-only syntax everywhere *except* inside tag attributes, e.g.: as opposed to "> which screws up

Re: [htmltmpl] Question about syntax

2004-08-11 Thread Markus Spring
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chisel Wright wrote: | | | or | | | But I figure that when I'm inside an attribute I need to remove as much | 'fluff' as possible to keep it legible. That's where I use vanguard_compatibility_mode => 1 during load_tmpl - it's %myimage% syntax is

Re: [htmltmpl] eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread Sam Tregar
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, David Wheeler wrote: > On Aug 10, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Sam Tregar wrote: > > > Here's a comparison of Krang and an older version of Bricolage: > > > > http://krang.sf.net/docs/krang_vs_bric.html > > Make that an _ancient_ version of Bricolage. So ancient that the > compariso

Re: [htmltmpl] Question about syntax

2004-08-11 Thread Chisel Wright
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:58:13PM +0200, Markus Spring wrote: > That's where I use vanguard_compatibility_mode => 1 during load_tmpl - it's > %myimage% syntax is unsurpassed short, but of course misses the possibility to > decide about escaping... Our HTML bunnies seem to struggle enough with stu

Re: [htmltmpl] eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-11 Thread David Wheeler
On Aug 10, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Sam Tregar wrote: Here's a comparison of Krang and an older version of Bricolage: http://krang.sf.net/docs/krang_vs_bric.html Make that an _ancient_ version of Bricolage. So ancient that the comparison is far from accurate and no longer really relevant. Cheers, Davi

Re: [htmltmpl] Question about syntax

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Peters
Dale W. Hanzelka wrote: Are these two items equivalent? > Brad Cathey wrote: No. Sorry about the confusion. the first one will put the contents of the var into an HTML comment and will never be seen by the view. The second one will hide the H::T tag from a validator/editor. The second is what

Re: [htmltmpl] Question about syntax

2004-08-11 Thread Dale W. Hanzelka
Are these two items equivalent? Thanks, Dale - Original Message - From: "Michael Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 7:04 AM Subject: Re: [htmltmpl] Question about syntax Brad Cathey wrote: > I've been using H::T for about a year ha

Re: [htmltmpl] Question about syntax

2004-08-11 Thread Carl Franks
> > > >This works well if you are using an (X)HTML editor that >specifically recognized HTML and nothing else. This will just >tell it to skip over you TMPL_VAR tags. Would also be better if >you put your templates through some kind of validation before >using them. Of course, it only works w

Re: [htmltmpl] Question about syntax

2004-08-11 Thread Chisel Wright
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:26:39AM -0500, Brad Cathey wrote: > I've been using H::T for about a year have noticed variations in syntax. For > example: > > > > vs. > > (no quotes) > > vs. > > > > and finally: > > (drop 'name=') > > I like the last one‹short and simple. Pros and cons, esp

Re: [htmltmpl] Question about syntax

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Peters
Brad Cathey wrote: I've been using H::T for about a year have noticed variations in syntax. For example: This fit's better as HTML/XHTML since it has a tag name and the attribute it quoted. Probably the best if you are planning on using other advance attributes of the tag (like ESCAPE, etc). (

[htmltmpl] Question about syntax

2004-08-11 Thread Brad Cathey
I've been using H::T for about a year have noticed variations in syntax. For example: vs. (no quotes) vs. and finally: (drop 'name=') I like the last one‹short and simple. Pros and cons, especially in my last example. Thanks. --- S