Re: [Webware-discuss] Groupware (Correction to Workflow standard URL)

2002-04-25 Thread Steve Waterbury
Steve Waterbury wrote: > OMG Workflow Management Facility Specification > (WfMC was involved in developing this standard also) > ... http://www.omg.org/docs/ab/97-05-05.pdf Wrong! (the only one I didn't check, of course! ;^) should be: http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?f

Re: [Webware-discuss] Groupware

2002-04-25 Thread Steve Waterbury
Ernesto Revilla wrote: > My aims are to put an ERP on top of the groupware solution. For that I'll > need a Workflow model. ... > > The proposed Workflow model (using MVC) is optimal. It could be used either > for elaborating a complex document (e.g. order, which was discussed in a > previous m

Re: [Webware-discuss] Whence FormKit? Or, alas, poor FormKit, we knew him.

2002-04-21 Thread Steve Waterbury
Steve Waterbury wrote: > Note that we (the Python community) could develop a probably more > elegant mark-up language than XML for hierarchical data structures, > "PyML" ... Oops ... always do a Google search first! I didn't realize there actually *was* a PyML (should

Re: [Webware-discuss] Whence FormKit? Or, alas, poor FormKit, we knew him.

2002-04-21 Thread Steve Waterbury
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ian Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > XML is wonderful in theory, but in practice it takes something that > > > should be simple and makes it ridiculously complicated. > > Actually, depending on the nature of th

Re: [Webware-discuss] Whence FormKit? Or, alas, poor FormKit, weknew him.

2002-04-19 Thread Steve Waterbury
Steve Waterbury wrote: > Off-topic alert! Take it to an XML list, please! Just to clarify: the discussion of Python tools for XML is great, and I'm learning from it! My plea was to try to avoid the issue of whether XML in general is a Good Thing, which tends to be theological.

Re: [Webware-discuss] Whence FormKit? Or, alas, poor FormKit, weknew him.

2002-04-19 Thread Steve Waterbury
Ian Sparks wrote: > > >> > XML is wonderful in theory, ... > << > > I understand the sentiment but the truth is that DOM, XSLT, XPath, SAX : all > these "ridiculously complicated" new languages represent real and worthwhile > additions to the programmers toolbox ... Off-topic alert! Take it

Re: [Webware-discuss] Prior incarnation of WebKit?

2002-04-07 Thread Steve Waterbury
Serge Shchetinin wrote: > > Hello Steve, > > Friday, April 05, 2002, 3:16:24, you wrote: > SW> I don't know if you are interested in this, but if I understand > SW> trademarks correctly, you could put a "TM" on your Webware for Python > SW> name even without registering it, just to let people kn

Re: [Webware-discuss] Minimal object-relational mapper...?

2002-04-05 Thread Steve Waterbury
Edmund Lian wrote: > > Ian wrote: > > >> 2. Support for transactions > > > >I didn't do this, but it would be nice... what kind of interface do you > >use for this? In a multi-threaded environment, I'd be unsure about how > >to lump together transactions... unless, I suppose, you have a > >conn

Re: [Webware-discuss] (no subject)

2002-04-05 Thread Steve Waterbury
Skip Montanaro wrote: > > Mico> I'm learning to use WebKit. My question: what are the pros and > Mico> cons for using WebKit.cgi instead of using OneShot.cgi? > > ease of > installationperformance > < OneShot.cgi -

Re: [Webware-discuss] Prior incarnation of WebKit?

2002-04-04 Thread Steve Waterbury
Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > > On Monday 01 April 2002 05:32 am, Hancock, David \(DHANCOCK\) wrote: > > One of the people in my group found the following link with a > > 1996-vintage product called WebKit. [snip] > > It gets better than that, David. If you search for Webware you will > find softwar

Re: [Webware-discuss] DBPool questions

2002-03-29 Thread Steve Waterbury
Karl Putland wrote: > ... integrated > connection pooling is something that I will need ... If PostgreSQL is a possible choice for the database, you might want to check out the psycopg adapter, which does pooling, etc: http://initd.org/software/psycopg Cheers, -- Steve. Stephen C. Waterbury

Re: [Webware-discuss] Minimal object-relational mapper...?

2002-03-20 Thread Steve Waterbury
Magnus Lie Hetland wrote: > > Chuck Esterbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Or do all Workers go in the > > same table? Or does each class get its own table only with its > > additional attributes? > > > > How is a reference to a Worker stored in the db? PostgreSQL does support table inheritance. I

Re: [Webware-discuss] Successful http authentication

2002-03-07 Thread Steve Waterbury
Magnus Lie Hetland wrote: > ... mod_auth_pgsql ... works just fine, together with a > Location entry in httpd.conf (which specifies the path including > WebKit.cgi). Now I don't have to think about the password handling > beyond having a proper table in my database (which I'll be using > anyway).

[Webware-discuss] Re: MiddleKit questions?

2002-03-02 Thread Steve Waterbury
Jason Hildebrand wrote: > FYI: I think there may be (at least the beginnings of) a PostgreSQL > adapter floating around. Someone else can probably send it to you if > you're interested. I would be very interested! I am about to begin developing one, if there isn't one. If anyone else is work

Re: [Webware-discuss] HTTP authentication

2002-02-27 Thread Steve Waterbury
Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some disadvantages of Basic Authentication: > > ** You can't customize the login dialog except the short "realm name" > string. If users are confused about why they are being asked for a > password, there's no way to provide a "click here for help" hyperlin